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In my opinion instruction is very purposeless for such individuals who do no want merely to collect a mass of knowledge, but are mainly interested in exercising (training) their own powers. One doesn't need to grasp such a one by the hand and lead him to the goal, but only from time to time give him suggestions, in order that he may reach it himself in the shortest way.

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

In other words these children, by avoiding the early drill on combinations, tables, and that sort of thing, had been able, in one year, to attain the level of accomplishment which the traditionally taught children had reached after three and one-half years of arithmetical drill.

I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. Im looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.

In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

In roughly the last century, important experiments have been launched by such charismatic educators as Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, Shinichi Suzuki, John Dewey, and A. S. Neil. These approaches have enjoyed considerable success[...] Yet they have had relatively little impact on the mainstream of education throughout the contemporary world.

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift in the culture of schooling would represent a profound shift in emphasis and in direction.

Inspired intellect must endure all kinds of ghastly education.

Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind

Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love for his subject and for inquiry, he is encouraged to study for the sake of his personal career; he is led to acquire only such knowledge as is serviceable in getting him over the hurdles which he must clear for the sake of his advancement.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.

International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.

In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we give to full professors, this one act alone would revitalize the nation's schools.

In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

In the world of entrepreneurs, you don't need a college education. You need a proper education.

In this land of the Ganga (Varanasi), there was education of culture. But, more importantly, there was a culture of education.

In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]

Into what boundless life, does education admit us. Every truth gained through it expands a moment of time into illimitable being--positively enlarges our existence, and endows us with qualities which time cannot weaken or destroy.

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years . . . . The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children. How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers.

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope and the books of the sophists.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself