Quotes About Education

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.

The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school.

I've consistently said, we need to support charter schools. I think it is important to experiment, by looking at how we can reward excellence in the classroom.

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.

Experience precedes understanding.

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art-it must speak to the child's experience. To educate the whole child, his heart and his will must be reached, as well as the mind.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is what you get from not reading it.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience.

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience

I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.