Quotes About Education

I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.

Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

It is also vital that our relationship with nature and the environment be included in our education systems. This is not longer something cute or nice to do; it is now a singular imperative.

Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.

There was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God's grace do the very best we could for them, as our fellowmen for whom Christ also died.

Before schools turned into indoctrination centers. Used to be, universities encouraged kids to think for themselves. Now they're socialist echo chambers.

People in America, they're getting dumber, they're getting less able to analyze something and think critically, and pick apart the underlying elements. And more and more ready to make a snap judgment regarding something at face value, which is too bad.

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

The most important question a seminary student must answer about his professor is not, 'Is he orthodox?,' but 'Is he honest?

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.... Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all

Perfect happiness for student and teacher will come with the abolition of examinations, which are stumbling blocks and rocks of offense in the pathway of the true student.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.