Quotes About Education

I am a practical person. Always believed in multi purpose tools, good education and limited conversations .... and then I saw her!

The greatest treasures are books.

If perception is limited by experience, knowledge, and/or education, what deems my actions "correct" or my thoughts as moral?

I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.

The idea that only the educated are privileged is an illusion.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way  of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

general or specialized knowledge. An educated man

Henry Ford accumulated a fortune, not because of his superior mind, but because he adopted and followed a PLAN which proved to be sound. A thousand men could be pointed out, each with a better education than Ford's, yet each of whom lives in poverty

The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.

O que você sugeriu é, com efeito, um sistema auxiliar de instrução que daria a todas as crianças que frequentam as escolas um conhecimento dos assuntos práticos da vida, direto da fonte original. Seria essa a ideia?

Successful men, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession. Those who are not successful usually make the mistake of believing that the knowledge acquiring period ends when one finishes school. The truth is that schooling does but little more than to put one in the way of learning how to acquire practical knowledge.

One of the largest industrial companies, the leader in its field, in writing to Mr. Moore concerning prospective seniors at the college, said: "' We are interested primarily in finding men who can make exceptional progress in management work. For this reason we emphasize qualities of character, intelligence and personality far more than specific educational background.

Think, not merely, but ACT the Think. For that is the only sure way to the educated Will. To act with decision, firmness, and promptness when an Emergency arrives is to feed nourishing food hourly to the Will. The weak Will is the starved Will.

missing link in all systems of education known to civilization today, may be found in the failure of educational institutions to teach their students HOW TO ORGANIZE AND USE KNOWLEDGE AFTER THEY ACQUIRE IT.

you impress upon your subconscious mind an idea, plan, concept, or belief. Repetition of positive suggestions to your subconscious mind is the most effective way of educating it to broadcast only positive messages.

before you can successfully sell to someone else, you must first educate your subconscious mind to broadcast your belief in what you offer for sale.

If you have the IMAGINATION, and seek a more profitable outlet for your personal services, this suggestion may be the stimulus for which you have been searching. The IDEA is capable of yielding an income far greater than that of the average doctor, lawyer, or engineer whose education required several years in college.

Keep in mind these facts:— First: you are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless. Second: you must have the advantage of the experience, education, native ability and imagination of other minds. This is in harmony with the methods followed by every person who has accumulated a great fortune.

His experience with Charles M. Schwab, and other young men of Mr. Schwab's type, convinced Mr. Carnegie that much of that which is taught in the schools is of no value whatsoever in connection with the business of earning a living or accumulating riches.

books we read, the people with whom we associate, the country and community in which we live, the nature of the work we do, the clothes we wear, the songs we sing, and, most important of all, the religious and intellectual training we receive in our early teenage years.

I am not attempting to minimize the value of schooling, but I am trying to express my earnest belief that those who master and apply the secret will reach high stations, accumulate riches, and bargain with life on their own terms, even if their schooling has been meager.