Quotes About Education

What's worse than training your people and losing them? Not training them and keeping them.

Eighty-nine percent of what people learn comes through visual stimulation, 10 percent through audible stimulation, and 1 percent through other senses. So

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it enough.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple. —John C. Maxwell

If you don't already have a mentor, go out and find one. If you can't get someone to help you in person, begin the process by reading books. That's where I got started. The main thing is to get the process under way.

Cuando Dios quiere educar a alguien, no lo envía a la escuela de la gracia sino a la de las necesidades.

Success is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can't lose." It also makes them think they don't need to learn.

President Abraham Lincoln said, "I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

knowledge alone is not power. Knowledge has value only in the hands of someone who has the ability to think well. People must learn how to think well to achieve their dreams and to reach their potential.

Los educadores toman algo simple y lo vuelven complicado. Los comunicadores toman algo complicado y lo hacen simple. —John C. Maxwell

WILLING TO PAY THE PRICE TO BE A PERPETUAL LEARNER.

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas: learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively." —GERALD FORD

Today is a reader, tomorrow's a leader...

The measure of a great teacher isn't what he or she knows; it's what the students know.

Mr. Holland's Opus

Los líderes con éxito son aprendices. Y el proceso del aprendizaje es un continuo resultado de la autodisciplina y la perseverancia.

Sydney Harris sums up the elements of a teachable mind-set: "A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others. A loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.

The ability to learn from mistakes has value not just in business but in all aspects of life. If you live to learn, then you will really learn to live.

I was brought up in southern Massachusetts, where it was thought that mythology was a subject that we should all grasp. It was very much a part of my education. The easiest way to parse the world is through mythology.

Even a selected display of one's early work will be a naked history of one's struggle to receive an education in economics and love.

One of our professors described a lecture as 'a mystical process by which the notes on the pad of the lecturer pass on to the pad of the student, without passing through the mind of either'.

toffs could get up to speed. But Ben at least knew roughly

but the insanity of punishing someone physically for getting an answer wrong. It is terrifying how much of this deeply unkind, utterly pointless, in fact, mind-bogglingly COUNTERPRODUCTIVE kind of behaviour was meted out to children over the centuries by half-witted, power-crazed zombies like this heinous old bat—a large proportion of such psychopaths allegedly acting in the name of an all-loving God

creativity plummets. This is because they think they have nothing more to learn.