Education Quotes (18224 Quotes)

We achieved such a lot in England with the school dinners campaign. Could we do the same in the States Absolutely.

One day in the middle of an important examination in high school, the point of my lead pencil broke. In those days we used pocket knives to sharpen our pencils. I had forgotten my penknife and turned to ask a neighbor for his. The teacher saw this he accused me of cheating. When I tried to explain, he gave me a tongue-lashing for lying worse, he forbade me to play on the basketball team in the upcoming game. I could see that the more I protested the angrier he seemed to become. But again and again I stubbornly told what had happened. Even when the coach pleaded my cause, the teacher refused to budge. The disgrace was almost more than I could bear. Then, just minutes before the game, he had a change of heart and I was permitted to play. But there was no joy in it. We lost the game and though that hurt, by far the deeper pain was being branded a cheat and a liar. Looking back. I know that lesson was God-sent. Character is shaped in just such crucibles. My parents believed me they were understanding and encouraging. Supported by them and a clear conscience, I began to realize that when you are at peace with your Maker you can, if not ignore human criticism, at least rise above it. And I learned something else - the importance of avoiding even the appearance of evil. Though I was innocent, circumstance made me look guilty. Since this could so easily be true in many of life's situations, I made a resolution to keep even the appearance of my actions above question, as far as possible. And it struck me, too, that if this injustice happened to me, it could happen to others, and I must not judge their actions simply on appearances.

I am really astonished at the amount of work we do. The only trouble here, they wont sic let us study enough. I think few men in college do as much as we do here.

When we have an opportunity to play the larger schools, they see the difference is just not there. Basketball is a home-and-road sport and, traditionally, the big schools have always played at home. Now when the smaller schools get them on a neutral court, the gap is not what the public perceives it to be.

If I were to pray for a taste which would stand by me under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.

We've been somewhat deliberate in our movement with this, because we have kind of used I don't want to say a committee approach but we've used a kind of a community approach where we've gotten involvement from a lot of different people in groups associated with the university.

We have 160 jitneys that can carry 13 passengers each. School buses are in our plans ... and five trains in the railroad system with the capability of moving 500 to 1,000 people.

Our challenge is to educate more people so that we can activate them. The prohibition in the D.C. appropriations bill is on lobbying activities, and this is not lobbying. This is education.

There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.

dialogue on our shared vision for higher education.

This is a great moment in the evolution of music and entertainment education. We hope that the Pro Session will help inspire some of today's young adults to consider a musical career in interactive entertainment.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

This is the first time a school bus driver has been ticketed on duty that I can recall in the year and a half I've been here. Another driver has taken over the route. All I can say is that we're investigating this thoroughly.

Teachers have spoken clearly. We will not be bullied into accepting another legislated contract that doesn't meet the needs of our students and doesn't respect our rights as workers.

It ended up working out that way. I enjoyed my time at Maine, but it wasn't what I was looking for in a college atmosphere, or really a football atmosphere. I just felt I owed it to myself to take that next step and try to keep going.

From about second grade through high school, being popular becomes important to many children, but friendship is the thing that endures. While not being in the 'in crowd' might seem devastating, encourage your child to simply make good friends.

Hey, I let my team down tonight. I'll be back out there and I'll pick us up another night. It's a learning experience right now, and hopefully, I can make that learning curve short.

Since the school opened up (in Sept. 2000) the grass has never had the proper time to establish itself and completely fill in. The constant beating these fields have undergone is beginning to deteriorate them badly and immediate actions need to be taken to remedy this situation.

We've lost some good teachers, because we've had highly qualified teachers and other counties have sought them out,

One of the things we need to do as the Board of Commissioners is to work with the school board to develop trust, so the public trusts these two groups to be responsible with whatever amount of money is provided.

We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

And Jesus in all of his teaching was very clear about the heart of the law, not the letter. And I think we have to remember that we are human first.

There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.

They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

I was getting my kids ready for school, and she was on the WAN morning news.

As a Fundamentalist I had discovered while I was in college that it is possible to dismiss the entire Church as having gone off the rails by about AD 95. That is, we, with our open Bibles, knew better than did old Ignatius or Clement, who had been taught by the very apostles themselves, just what the Church is and what it should look like.

The trial lawyers' arguments against the beverage industry don't add up. If child consumption of full-calorie soft drinks in schools is going down while childhood obesity may be going up, it doesn't make sense to single out sodas in schools as the cause for weight problems.

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

President Bush is the fittest president in history. They said it's because he spends a lot of time exercising. See a lot of our previous presidents wasted that time reading. .... A lot of people are every critical of President Bush for taking the entire month of August off for his vacation. But his staff points out, there's nothing at the White House he can't do at the ranch because the ranch is fully equipped. It's got the treadmill, the weight room, the jogging path, the big screen TV, they get Nickelodeon. It's got everything he would do.

From what I've seen of the kids here at the gym today, you can tell that they're very eager to learn, they're hungry for the game and they enjoy playing basketball,

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

The tradition between the two schools is unrivaled. It's so rich, goes back so far, in a sense it can't be matched. There are only a couple of other schools in the nation with this much tradition. Hopefully, this can go down as one of the great games.

That is most important with our program -- defend the rebound. When you go against Boston College, you have to keep them off the offensive glass. That's most important with us when we go against bigger teams.

We have a son that plays for one of the schools. I'm very interested in men's basketball.

Our position is that statewide, the school board has a budget and allocates money to all schools in their district. We don't want legislation, the courts or anyone else telling us where to spend portions of (the districts') budgets.

He took every math course they had in college.

My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

It was definitely a learning process. It was obviously the first time I was getting to play collegiate ball, but I had a great coach and great experience.

Losing two students is a shock to the school and to the school community.

The office of web services will now become part of the office of university communications, and safety and security and the parsonage will become part of the Student Affairs portfolio,

When Keith was getting recruited in the spring of his junior year, teams like Michigan State, Iowa, Michigan, Virginia Tech were stopping by, and one of the recruiters said, 'Palisades I've driven this 611 route at least 100 times in 20 years between Easton and CB West and I never even knew there was a school here,' ... Now that Keith brought that attention, some other kids have gotten letters (from colleges). It's opened avenues for some of the other guys.

Parents often get mixed messages about what's happening in the school.

My main concern is the negative effect this will have on students who take part in college courses. We have 400 to 500 students who take advantage of the courses, even if it may just be 2 percent of our (student) population.

Our work the last three weeks has indicated that these two men could potentially be good fits at the University of Missouri.

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

That's the way I've been educated: I always think about what I missed and the things that you did, you did them, so you don't have to think about them any more.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.

Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.