Quotes Tagged "education"

Moral education, ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.

You succeed or you learn. Both can be positive.

It doesn't matter what we cover, it matters what you discover

We forgot that there are some things that we cannot get hold of with our minds. The mind is good -- God put it there. He gave us our heads, and it was not His intention that our heads would function just as a place to hang a hat. He gave us our heads, and He put brains in our heads, and that faculty we call the intellect has its own work to do. But that work is not the apprehending of divine things -- that is of the Holy Spirit. Let me remind you now that modern orthodoxy has make a great blunder in the erroneous assumption that spiritual truth can be intellectually perceived. There have been far-reaching conditions resulting from this concept -- and they are showing in our preaching, our praying, our singing, our activity and our thinking.

...Who knows what is and is not proof to the crotchety ladies and chainstore owners who sit and die on Boards of Education?

Imagine what ideas are locked up in the hearts and minds of women who simply lack the tools to express them.

You are yet to catch up with the real world if you've never studied any concepts outside the school syllabus or read any books beside the texts books school forced you to read. Most people are just programmed not educated

He said that the education of the young was more important than anything that could be done for those who are already grown up.

Faced with the unfamiliar, we the public have been trained to rely on museums, like schools, to serve up art and culture like pieces of pie: little wedges of esthetics, criticism, politics and history.

A single heartbreak teaches you more than what a lifetime of schooling can

Speak little. Listen more. Learn a lot.

Housewives more than any other race deserve well-furnished minds. They have to live in them such a lot of the time.

In the hectic pace of the world today, there is no time for meditation, or for deep thought. A prisoner has time that he can put to good use. I’d put prison second to college as the best place for a man to go if he needs to do some thinking. If he’s motivated, in prison he can change his life.

Every child's first lesson in reflection, refraction, surface tension, colloidal solutions, fluid dynamics, and what not, begins with a pool of water on the road. //All in a child's play

An intellectual human being would back up arguments with reliable evidence in order to adequately defend his or her position in debates, court cases or academia settings.

For reasons we've explored, children struggling to read aren't going to be helped by the one-size-fits-all approach that is typical in so many schools. Rather, we need teachers who are trained to use a toolbox of principals that they can apply to different types of children.

Why do we teach children how to make money? Maybe, we should teach them how to make friends instead.

It's not about what you know, it's about what you do not know. Knowledge may be power, but the act of learning is even more powerful

We cannot hope to utter anything worth saying, unless we read and inwardly digest the utterances of our betters.

The combined effects of growing inequality, a faltering education system, demographic headwinds, and the strong likelihood of a fiscal correction imply that the real median disposable income will grow much more slowly in the future than in the past.