Quotes About Education

True. The school admin decided that a girls clothes were more important than her education.

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.

The very reason for nature's existence is for the education of the soul.

So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every person a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them!

Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be pure and spiritually strong and educated, then alone will misery cease in the world, not before. We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes.

The ideal of all education, all training, should be this man-making. But, instead of that, we are always trying to polish up the outside. What use in polishing up the outside when there is no inside? The end and aim of all training is to make the man grow. The man who influences, who throws his magic, as it were, upon his fellow-beings, is a dynamo of power, and when that man is ready, he can do anything and everything he likes; that personality put upon anything will make it work.

I was not a good teacher; I didn't have the sort of edge one should have on the students, so I decided to do something else.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

I don't think, because I'm going to school for something else, that I will stop being an actress.

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

Most people who write and publish poetry teach or do something else.

It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.

Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism.

We should ensure to teach the next generation something good. We have such rich literature and history. Why can't we make better stories?

I grow old learning something new every day.

I'm always interested in learning something new.

Every day you learn something new.

The real evolution is to learn something new every day - it's very important for chefs to share what they have discovered.

I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.

The best place to learn acting is your own home. Everyday there is a new drama and every day you get to learn something new in your own house. So I have learned a lot from there.

So what's really behind the 'English Only' Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn something different. Heaven forbid they would have to learn something new.