Education Quotes (18224 Quotes)

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

These schools are just buying games, buying wins. That's not fair, and it's not what's good for college basketball. ... There has to be some reward for people willing to play a good schedule and realizing that when you play good people, you're going to win some and you're going to lose some. We should reward the people that are willing to challenge their teams.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

During my 26 years of college coaching, I have had the opportunity to experience exciting games played in great arenas across the country. Capacity crowds cheering for their teams in 'fan-friendly' arenas are what made those atmospheres special. No doubt, The Colonial Center is among the best in all of college basketball ... the place to be for every Gamecock fan.

At the college and university level, poker is pretty much the hottest thing going.

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

We will have really good crowds through the week, up until the kids go back to school, but it's a relaxed environment. People are out having fun.

He's a good kid that has a chance to be an outstanding player. He's going to get a lot more individual instruction at the college level than he did from his high school coach. He'll make an immediate impact down there.

Kate wanted a higher level of competition, which I was totally understandable. Also, American University is in D.C. and has a much higher ratio of international students.

My comments were not in any way specific to the University of Cincinnati.

I think it speaks to the level of talent in the area. These kids have come through the club level and they're ready when they get to high school. This area is a hotbed of soccer right now.

For a long time, parents did not have more than a modest amount of information about what really school is about. In an era where choice is possible, you need good information.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

Timmy has played a lot of point guard for us this year and he can play the two (guard). This was a great learning experience for him. He has made a lot of progress. There is just so much to learn coming from high school to college.

I think it's time that we start immediately looking at air conditioning and heating in all of our high schools. We need to get that started. We have delayed it long enough.

The committee worked hard on trying to protect that as much as possible. I think the land use study is something that is beneficial for the community. It gives, hopefully, a guideline that kind of protects the individual and doesn't just let the region become one big suburban area.

Communities with high rates of homeownership often have residents who are more involved in local schools, civic organizations and churches.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

Especially in our area, (the issues are) property rights, education and economic growth, particularly through enhancements for small business. Everybody wants to pursue and live the American dream, which is to have something of their own, to own something whether it be a home or other type property, or a business, or something. I want to make sure we continue giving opportunities to small business owners. In addition, people like to know what they have is safeguarded and isn't going to be taken away.

They were looking for more equity within a district and we decided to survey the schools. Some people said they were playing in a district with schools twice our size and some of the games weren't competitive.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

It becomes a learning process. Parents don't know very much about soccer because they don't have a soccer background, so they have to rely on their children, so that increases the level of communication, hopefully, in the family.

God is missing from the hearts and minds of far too many people in society today. He is missing from our schools, and our homes, and our communities,

Then on Sunday, we were getting a little low on food and Rick Jones called and said 'We're gearing down at the college and we have food that's been donated. Can you use it'

I think the first album was very naive we were just out of high school. This record, on the other hand, was written in maybe four months all in all. When you go on tour for two years throughout the world, you change as a person and as a band and as a musician.

I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.

Anytime you have the chance to deal with an organization that has set the bar in the NBA at the highest level, it's a great thing to be able to host their training camp here at the University of the Virgin Islands.

My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress.

I was a loner in high school. I keep to myself, but I love life.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

The more of us with education, means less struggle for the ones after us. The doors ARE locked, and we have the KEYS. Make copies... for the locks, they have not changed.

To be honest, drugs and alcohol are bigger concerns right now than steroids. Those are huge problems with kids right now. So if you test for steroids, you have to test for all drugs. And if you test kids, then you also have to test coaches and teachers. You have to hold that standard across the board with everybody.

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.

I got to meet some players going to big-name schools. I got a different perspective on them and found out they're every-day people.

At every venue there will be environmental information distributed and chances for people to get involved with environmental groups. There's no reason why you can't go out and have fun, have a beer and get a little education.

I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.

D.A.T.A. stands for desires, abilities, temperament and assets. . . . desires may include solving problems, performing intellectually challenging work in an independent setting and making things run well . . . abilities are the transferable skills. . . . to solve people's problems. These may include writing, budgeting and using different software programs . . . temperament may refer to what situations make you most productive and satisfied . . . assets are the life experiences, education and training that set one apart from everyone else.

I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

We need to protect all of the funds that are to be directed toward educating those students and running the schools. Our concern would not be what resources they have or don't have to make their case.

Our hypothesis is that young adults are more vulnerable to poor health practices than teenagers because they are leaving the more protective environments of home and school.

He's done a wonderful job as far as when he's represented Desert Vista High School.

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

I wanted to organize the students so they would represent the school in a good light and behave themselves at the games.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed it is the same as it has always been, since Callimachus administered the great library in Alexandria.