Education Quotes and Sayings - Page 10
That’s the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
Evelyn Waugh
Assistant masters came and went…Some liked little boys too little and some too much.
Evelyn Waugh
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.
Ann Radcliffe
You send your child to the schoolmaster, but ’tis the schoolboys who educate him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning is like rowing upstream:
not to advance is to drop back.
Chinese Saying
One tongue is sufficient for a woman.
John Milton
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
Francis Bacon
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Boredom will always remain the greatest enemy of school disciplines. If we remember that children are bored, not only when they don’t happen to be interested in the subject or when the teacher doesn’t make it interesting, but also when certain working conditions are out of focus with their basic needs, then we can realize what a great contributor to discipline problems boredom really is. Research has shown that boredom is closely related to frustration and that the effect of too much frustration is invariably irritability, withdrawal, rebellious opposition or aggressive rejection of the whole show.
Fritz Redl
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain
Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one’s own mind.
T. H. Huxley
I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.
David Selby
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life.
Ernest Renan
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. Forster
The founding fathers… provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.
John Updike
My parents told me, “Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.” I tell my daughters, “Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.”
Thomas L. Friedman
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Gloria Steinem
‘Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,’ the Mock Turtle replied; ‘and then the different branches of Arithmetic – Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.’
Lewis Carroll
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert Edward Wiggam
There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.
Henry Ward Beecher
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
Thomas Carruthers
There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
Samuel Johnson
College isn’t the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Jonathan Kozol
Learning to teach is a bigger job than universities, schools, experience, or personal disposition alone can accomplish.
Sharon Feiman-Nemser
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Goethe
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