Best 6551 quotes in «education quotes» category

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

Most people...are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can't handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.

most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.

Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are wrong, but our education system is such that many people don't know it.

Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

Most remarks made by children consist of correct ideas very badly expressed. A good teacher will be very wary of saying 'No, that's wrong.' Rather, he will try to discover the correct idea behind the inadequate expression. This is one of the most important principles in the whole of the art of teaching.

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.

Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

My best life lessons and education didn't come from a classroom - they've come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.

My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

My father's saying, The harder you work, the luckier you get.

My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had... so he sent me to a girls school.

My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.

My future is righteousness.

My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

My history teacher was so old, he taught from memory.

My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.

My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education.

My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment, which is a good thing for someone who still thinks of themselves as a very basic American.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.

My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter.

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.

Nature is a good teacher; he who can read the nature well, he can learn sagacious things belong to life from it. Once you stepped in the nature, your philosophical education starts. A black vulture teaches you many things; a bear teaches you many things; a bird making its nest and a rosehip which resists being frozen, they teach you many things!

Nature is stronger than education.

Nature is the best instructor.