Quotes About Influence

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.

How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them.

Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

EFFECT OF A TRUE TEACHER GOES UP TO ETERNITY THROUGH HIS STUDENTS.

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

I'd been exposed to alternate ways of thinking and it seriously affected the way my mother had reared me.

If you are always persuasive, you would be able to make new friends in society.

I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.

The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.

My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing.""You mean you went to an expensive school?

You think you're a role model, and they (protégés)turn around and tell you you're a negative role model.

By the time you have a platform for saying what you want, you've already become part of the system. It's how it works.

Behavior isn't something someone "has." Rather, it emerges from the interaction of a person's biology, past experiences, and immediate context.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

He couldn't get into Harvard even if he had the dean's wife at gunpoint.

Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.