In school, curiosity is hardly ever taught or nurtured, breeding legions of students who’ve lost all love of learning.
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Quotes tagged ‘Education’
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between school and prison is the wardrobe.
— Rachel Lipman, Quinn Morgendorffer, Wendy Hoopes, imdb.com
If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.
Music is not a very stable business. You know it comes and it goes, and so does money. But your education stays with you for the rest of your life.
We made this change, one, was for the clean and concise schedule. It was also to recruit and retain highly-quality teachers. This new schedule appeals to teachers because their professional development is built into their day. They were using their personal time to prepare for the day. They'll now h…
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education, and thereby be enabled to read the histories of his…
When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon
By the mud-sill theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be all the better for being blind, that he could not tread o…
The old general rule was that educated people did not perform manual labor. They managed to eat their bread, leaving the toil of producing it to the uneducated. This was not an insupportable evil to the working bees, so long as the class of drones remained very small. But now, especially in these fr…
Mr. Clay's lack of a more perfect early education, however it may be regretted generally, teaches at least one profitable lesson; it teaches that in this country, one can scarcely be so poor, but that, if he will, he can acquire sufficient education to get through the world respectably.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.
When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.
It will take years, not just a couple of months, of education to change their thinking.
The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have."
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
Me: How was your last day of school before break? 5-year-old: We didn't even learn!
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.