Educational Quotes

One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.

While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself.

Education must promote peace, security and happiness.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else.

Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.

Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more.

The answer to most questions can be given in one or two words, and no one will challenge you to go deeper.

There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.

I bought my kid an educational toy to help him make it through life. No matter how you put it together, it's wrong.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

There is one "right answer" to any question, and it is in the book to be read.

Most tasks and tests will demand recall of isolated pieces of information, and I will not have to show how concepts and ideas are related or how facts illustrate underlying principles.

Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.

I'd rather teach peace.

Teaching is a strategic act of engagement.

Plan your hours to be productive...Plan your weeks to be educational...Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow.

If Cargo is a catalyst to spark policy, that would be great. The more we're able to use it as an educational tool, the more it's a building block in youths' minds and peoples' minds to enact policy.

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)

I really believe in the power of comics as an educational thing, even ones as silly as mine, because they're a gateway to the actual thing. They're like an easy entrance.

Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.

Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay. Education provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income and an enhanced quality of life.

Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.

I was surrounded by art by virtue of not only the educational opportunities that my mother's foresight availed me to.

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.

We have very close humanitarian contacts [with China], wide-ranging youth exchanges, educational and regional contacts, and all of them continue to develop.

Every parent is a teacher... But not all parents teach.

Education is the ability to meet life's situations.

The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.

In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra, is usually an educational disaster.

All animals are born with innocence, curiosity and love.

We recognize that real educational reform is essential if today's and tomorrow's children are to live in a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style combined with educational aims.

Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.

Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

I can't think of a 30- or 40-year-old who can behave like Mugabe. They wouldn't even know where to begin, and given their own educational exposure, I think it will be very positive for Africa.

When you can show concern about what matters to your customer, that's Business to Customer Loyalty, and you can bet on it, you've just acquired a customer for life.

For the longest time, you couldnt even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being flabbergasted by its unity.

We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people.