Quotes
Quotes about Wit
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life. Barbara Hoberman Levine, Your Body Believes Every Word You Say Learning to love and accept ourselves is basic to human education. So is learning to language emotion in a positive way. Ultimately when we learn to truly love and accept ourselves, we'll be able to live well and love each other and every thing we encounter. -Doc Childre.
The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. -Laurence Lee.
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. -Sir William Haley.
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -Alec Bourne.
More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build alot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities. -Jonathan Kozol.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo.
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -Malcolm Forbes.
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. -Unknown.
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
