Quotes About Education

Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.

I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.

There's more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

I'm doing something now where I'm going to have to learn so much and that takes time nurturing, those kinds of relationships.

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail.

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

You have to be more picky with jobs when you're at school because you can't miss crucial times and put your education in jeopardy for things that aren't worth it at the time.

I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.

THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Be a sponge. Spend as much time as possible with people who truly know their craft and be a great listener. That is how you learn.

Network marketing is really the greatest source of grass-roots capitalism, because it teaches people how to take a small bit of capital, that is your time, and build the American dream.

books became the greatest purveyors of truth, and the truth shall make you free.

You would have us encourage our sons to prove all things by their own experience, while our daughters must not even profit by the experience of others.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, unarmed against her foes, and ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.

And indeed this was the best policy—for to submit and oblige was the governess's part, to consult their own pleasure was that of the pupils.

Es tonto desear la belleza. Las personas sensatas nunca la desean para sí ni le dan importancia en los demás. Si la mente está bien cultivada y el corazón bien dispuesto, a nadie le importa el exterior. Eso decían los profesores de nuestra infancia, y eso decimos nosotros a los niños de hoy. Todo muy juicioso y correcto, sin duda, pero ¿la experiencia apoya tales afirmaciones?

ali protivim se svakome tko se toliko posve?uje svome u?enju, radilo se o muškarcu ili ženi, da sve drugo izgubi iz vida. Osim pod nekim jedinstvenim okolnostima, smatram rigorozno i neprekidno u?enje gubitkom vremena te povredom kako uma, tako i tijela.

I should prepare and smooth the path of learning till she could glide along it without the least exertion to herself: which I could not, for nothing can be taught to any purpose without some little exertion on the part of the learner.

como hacer viable la Virtud, deseable la Educación y preciosa y comprensible la Religion

I come from the sort of family in which, at the age of ten, I was told I must always say hoi polloi , never the hoi polloi , because hoi meant the, and two the's were redundant -- indeed something only hoi polloi would say.

During the late 1910s and early '20s, immigrant workers at the Ford automotive plant in Dearborn, Michigan, were given free, compulsory "Americanization" classes. In addition to English lessons, there were lectures on work habits, personal hygiene, and table manners. The first sentence they memorized was "I am a good American.

To nature lovers, the season of new beginnings is the spring, but to people who excel in school, it's the fall.