Quotes About Education Uk

“Real education happens only by failing, changing, challenging, and adjusting. All of those gerunds apply to teachers as well as students. No person is an "educator," because education is not something one person does to another. Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience.”

— Siva Vaidhyanathan

“The mere stuffing of the mind with a knowledge of facts is not education. The mind must not only possess a knowledge of the truth, but the soul must revere it, cherish it, love it as a priceless gem; and this human life must be guided and shaped by it in order to fulfill its destiny.”

— Joseph Fielding Smith

“Religion, superstition, oaths, education, laws, all give way before passions, interest, and power.”

— David McCullough

“Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.”

— Aldo Leopold

“GUARD YOUR WEAK POINT. He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty: and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. -Bible. The first and best of victories is for a man to conquer himself: to be conquered by himself is, of all things, the most shameful and vile. -Plato. The worst education which teaches self-denial is better than the best which teaches everything else and not that. -John Sterling. Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. -Seneca. The energy which issues in growth, or assimilates knowledge, must originate in self and be self-directed. -Thomas J. Morgan.”

— Orison Swett Marden

“A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.”

— Coco Chanel

“My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, but that's not what she was talking about. My mom knew that education opened doors and opened minds.”

— Richard Carmona

“There is a legitimate role for development education in the UK, but I do not believe these projects give the taxpayer value for money.”

— Andrew Mitchell

“Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'”

— Samantha Power

“This teaching job did not pay a lot of money, because, let's face it, nobody gives a flying fuck about education, but it was a temporary position.”

— Daniel Handler

“What the mayors care about is, 'How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?'”

— Michael Nutter

“The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.”

— Chaka Fattah

“All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.”

— Bill Cosby

“Jack London and Ernest Hemingway, confidence swaggering into the storm: Man against Nature. Of all the possible conflicts, that was the one that was hopeless. Even a slim education had taught her this much: Man loses.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.”

— Camille Paglia

“The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.”

— John Engler

“Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.”

— Louis L’Amour

“My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it's about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn't. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don't take what they have for granted.”

— Kevin Hart

“I wanted to win the gold medal and then go home and further my education in college. I had no intentions whatsoever to become a professional fighter because I had heard horror stories about former boxers who made money but, in the end, ended up with nothing. I didn't want to be one of those guys.”

— Sugar Ray Leonard

“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.”

— Victor Hugo

“Persons without education certainly do not want [lack] either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction
they see their objects always near, never in the horizon.”

— William Hazlitt

“It is strange that men will prepare for everything except death. We prepare for education. We prepare for business. We prepare for our careers. We prepare for marriage. We prepare for old age. We prepare for everything except the moment we are to die.”

— Billy Graham

“She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.”

— Edmond De Goncourt

“Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic!”

— Frank Van Dun

“Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.”

— Martha Gellhorn

“Global education is something that is important for me. Because I believe that our future is going to be built by our young generation.”

— Anousheh Ansari

“The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself into will, to application of itself, to pure practice. The realists felt the need and supplied it, though in a most miserable way, by cultivating idea-less and fettered "practical men." Most college students are living examples of this sad turn of events. Trained in the most excellent manner, they go on training; drilled they continue drilling.”

— Max Stirner

“Let the children ... be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.”

— Benjamin Rush

“Change is a pesky notion. For many folks, the biggest challenge in changing their eating habits isn't money, time, or education; it's reframing their connection between food and love.”

— Kris Carr

“Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.”

— Sai Baba

“If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers' dollars?”

— Diane Ravitch

“Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.”

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,
the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,
the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“The essence of true education in one's life is to show the presence of mind, heart and soul to sense everything right.”

— Anuj

“As Regis Mckenna once said, the best marketing is education”

— Steve Jobs

“The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.”

— Erica Jong

“Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.”

— Erich Fromm

“Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.”

— Jim Rohn

“Letting the free market do whatever it wants. That's not been historically how we grow. We have to invest in education, in rebuilding broadband lines and roads and runways, and it's important that we bring back American manufacturing and regulations to prevent consumers from being cheated.”

— Barack Obama

“Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.”

— Benjamin Spock

“Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide”

— Viktor E. Frankl

“I would like to ask you all to see a ray of hope as well in the eyes and hearts of refugees and of those who have been forcibly displaced. A hope that is expressed in expectations for the future, in the desire for friendship, in the wish to participate in the host society also through learning the language, access to employment and the education of children. I admire the courage of those who hope to be able gradually to resume a normal life, waiting for joy and love to return to brighten their existence. We can and must all nourish this hope!”

— Pope Francis

“In any piece of rhetorical discourse, one rhetorical term overcomes another rhetorical term only by being nearer to the term which stands ultimate. There is some ground for calling a rhetorical education necessarily aristocratic education in that the rhetorician has to deal with an aristocracy of notions.”

— Richard M. Weaver

“Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.”

— Maria Montessori

“Education should not be fun. You are being brought up into society and society has a way of doing things. It may not be pleasant but sooner or later you are going to have to do it anyway.”

— Robert M. Pirsig