There is a time in every man's education when he
arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance;
that imitation is suicide; that he must take
himself for better, for worse, as his portion;
that though the wide universe is full of good, no
kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but
through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground
which is given to him to till.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The function of education is to help you from
childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself
all the time.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we
need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we
lack at birth, all that we need when we come to
man's estate, is the gift of education
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can,
but then...do something. Don't just stand there,
make it happen.
- Lee Iacocca
Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your
own feet, in your current job, industry,
education, experience or interests.
- Brian Tracy
The test and the use of man's education is that he
finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
- Jacques Martin Barzun
Poverty, race, ethnicity and immigration status
are not in themselves determinative of student
achievement. Demography is not destiny. The amount
of melanin in a student's skin, the home country
of her antecedents, the amount of money in the
family bank account, are not the inexorable
determinants of academic success. The evidence
introduced at trial demonstrates that these
negative life experiences can be overcome by
public schools with sufficient resources well
deployed. It is the clear policy of the state, as
formulated by the Regents and S.E.D. [State
Education Department], that all children can
attain the substantive knowledge and master the
skills expected of high school graduates. The
court finds that the city's at-risk children are
capable of seizing the opportunity for a sound
basic education if they are given sufficient
resources.
- Justice Leland DeGrasse
Supreme Court of the State of New York
If someone is going down the wrong road, he
doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he
needs is education to turn him around.
- Jim Rohn
A good education is not so much one which prepares
a man to succeed in the world, as one which
enables him to sustain a failure.
- Bernard Iddings Bell
Chaplain, University of Chicago
Label on a child's Superman costume: Wearing of
this garment does not enable you to fly.
- Unknown
The object of education is to prepare the young to
educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
Education is what survives when what has been
learnt has been forgotten.
- B. F. Skinner
Nothing in the world can take the place of
persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more
common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius
will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not the world is full of educated
derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are
omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and
always will solve the problems of the human race
- Calvin Coolidge
The education and empowerment of women throughout
the world cannot fail to result in a more caring,
tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate leader of Burma's democracy movement
It has always seemed strange to me that in our
endless discussions about education so little
stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an
educated person, the enormous interest it adds to
life. To be able to be caught up into the world of
thought--that is to be educated.
- Edith Hamilton
If I were asked to enumerate ten educational
stupidities, the giving of grades would head the
list... If I can't give a child a better reason
for studying than a grade on a report card, I
ought to lock my desk and go home and stay there.
- Dorothy De Zouche
I have never let my schooling interfere with my
education
- Mark Twain
Education is the ability to listen to almost
anything without losing your temper or your
self-confidence.
- Robert Frost
I am always ready to learn, but I do not always
like being taught.
- Sir Winston Churchill
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you
are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are
planning for a lifetime, educate people.
- Chinese proverb
Education is a progressive discovery of our own
ignorance.
- Will Durant
Education is when you read the fine print.
Experience is what you get if you don't.
- Pete Seeger
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind
with an open one.
- Malcolm Forbes
He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
- Richard Henry Dann
There are two types of education... One should
teach us how to make a living, And the other how
to live.
- John Adams
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the
lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
The Master in the art of living makes little
distinction between his work and his play, his
labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his
education and his recreation, his love and his
religion. He hardly knows which is which. He
simply pursues his vision of excellence in
whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether
he is working or playing. To him he is always
doing both.
- Zen Buddhist Text
Good manners will open doors that the best
education cannot.
- Clarence Thomas
Education is not a form of entertainment, but a
means of empowering people to take control of
their lives.
- Unknown
A man's ethical behavior should be based
effectually on sympathy, education, and social
ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would
indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained
by fear of punishment and hope of reward after
death.
- Albert Einstein
Education commences at the mother's knee, and
every word spoken within the hearing of little
children tends towards the formation of character.
- Hosea Ballou