Quotes About Education

As we strive to teach others we must have the humility to acknowledge that we too still have much to learn.

O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) The ACRC plans to continuously promote anti-corruption policies and technical assistance projects for those countries that signed an MOU with the Commission. In addition, the Commission plans to expand the technical assistance recipients to the countries in Africa and South America, through the integrity education course for foreign public officials

Lisa had an engineer's way of shrugging off the entire field of the humanities, all three thousand years of it, as self-indulgent fuzzy thinking.

My name is Richard Milhous Nixon. I swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. I was educated at Whittier College in Whittier, California, and I have seen the devil walk.

A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.

He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.

The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

Adults never explained anything. They saw children as akin to small animals, creatures who had to be tugged and beaten into adulthood before they were worthy of information and discussion.

Most Muslims never delve into theology, and we rarely read the Quran; we are taught it in Arabic, which most Muslims can't speak. As a result, most people think that Islam is about peace. It is from these people, honest and kind, that the fallacy has arisen that Islam is peaceful and tolerant.

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

Not to learn from our experiences is a tremendous waste of time. Life is an adult-education school.

Education is a type of money which surmount when expend.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle or the bridge or the Indians if you believe that the civilization you were born into is the only one that counts. Go and look around with the idea that everything you learned in school and college is wrong.

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Why did colleges make their students take examinations, and why did they give grade? What did a grade really mean? When a student "studied" did he do anything more than read and think-- or was there something special which no one in Walden Two would know about? Why did the professors lecture to the students? Were the students never expected to do anything except answer questions? Was it true that students were made to read books they were not interested in?

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.