Quotes About Education

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics

I believe effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We are in the education business. Whether in class or on the court, my job was the same: to effectively teach those under my supervision how they could perform to the best of their ability in ways that best served the goals of our team. I believe the same is true for productive leaders in any organization.

Drink deeply from good books.

No written word nor spoken plea Can teach our youth what they should be. Nor all the books on all the shelves. It's what the teachers are themselves.

The trick to learning Chinese is to always carry the flashcards into work every time, and also to write Chinese letters to your children.

There's nothing else in this world the color of a school bus. They call it yellow but it's not quite yellow, and it's not orange either. I'd say it's something somewhere in between margarine and Velveeta. It's not a natural color. Then again I guess if we wanted kids to grow up natural we wouldn't put them on a school bus in the first place.

She'd never known a book lover to grow up to cause trouble.

The word discipline comes from disciple, someone who is in a position to learn.

Congressman Ryan is a strong advocate for greater mindfulness in health care as well as in other important areas such as education, the military, and criminal justice. In his book, he makes a very strong case for why we need greater mindfulness in these and other areas of our society.

How will that eventually be a contribution to humanity? That is truly our common goal. Can we contribute something to education through cultivating emotional balance? As His Holiness often says, we cannot have outer peace without inner peace. We cannot have an outer disarmament without inner disarmament. If we want to have a harmonious society, it has to begin with and within each of us.

Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.

The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.