Educational Quotes

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

(We need) leadership that is tough enough to demand a great deal from everyone, and leadership that is tender enough to encourage the heart.

For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives

Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.

True education consists in the cultivation of the heart.

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.

The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies.

The more he cast away, the more he had.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.

As a college coach, I felt you could make a difference in a player's life. There was an educational aspect I thought was important.

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

My position is this – street soccer is the most natural educational system that can be found

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work

Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.

What the head thinks, should be examined critically in the heart and this right decision should be carried out by the hands. This should be the primary product of the educational process.

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.

I attract a crowd, not because I'm an extrovert or I'm over the top or I'm oozing with charisma. It's because I care.

I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the 'educated' person.

Knowledge is justified belief.

Only that which is directed toward definite goals, which in turn are founded on sound educational philosophy, can be ultimately meaningful. The principles must always precede the activities.

Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly.

All of the factors that make up a quality city - safe streets, high paying jobs, strong neighborhoods, etc. - emanate from a strong educational premise.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.

People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots.