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The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the four R's: reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic, and Rush.

The well-meaning people who talk of education as if it were a substance distributable by coupon in large or small quantities never exhibit any understanding of the truth that you cannot teach anybody anything that he does not want to learn.

The wealth that increases by giving, That wealth is knowledge and is supreme of all possessions.

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.

They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.

They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical...

The zooming wealth of the top 1 percent is a problem, but it's not nearly as big a problem as the tens of millions of Americans who have dropped out of high school or college. It's not nearly as big a problem as the 40 percent of children who are born out of wedlock. It's not nearly as big a problem as the nation's stagnant human capital, its stagnant social mobility and the disorganized social fabric for the bottom 50 percent.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.

This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings and garbage . . . What about our own roots? . . . I am up against the system, the whole method and approach of a system of education which makes us morons, cultural morons, but efficient clerks for all your business and administration offices.

This is my country. The Russian people are in bit of trouble. Russian court doesn't work. Russian education decline every year. I believe that Russia has a chance to be free. Has a chance. It's difficult, but we must do it.

This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

This (scanning project) is our chance to one-up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all the works of humankind to all the people of the world. It will be an achievement remembered for all time, like putting a man on the moon.

Those of us who have the duty of training the rising generation of doctors...must not inseminate the virgin minds of the young with the tares of our own fads. It is for this reason that it is easily possible for teaching to be too 'up to date'. It is always well, before handing the cup of knowledge to the young, to wait until the froth has settled.

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.

Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.