Education Quotes (18224 Quotes)

There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book Is it Aristotle Is it Pliny, is it Buffon No-it is Robinson Crusoe.

College did kind of inspire it. I'm a little bit far removed from it now.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

We are very proud of these young men whose dedication and commitment earned them the opportunity to pursue their athletic talents beyond high school.

Just to have the opportunity to compete for a conference championships with four games to go in the season would be something that any college basketball player would relish. Our guys have done a tremendous job of putting us in this position.

It's reckless for the defense not to ask. But it's like asking the teacher for the homework assignment you are not going to like the answer you get.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

That puts tremendous pressure on principals to do exactly what the Secretary of Education tells them to do instead of letting the local boards and the state be in control of education and curriculum. We're using the resolution to oppose further encroachment into local control of education.

The stage was our school, our home, our life.

It's all very well being a native speaker. But explaining complex grammar without training would be a nightmare. A course gives you practice. There's an obligation from schools to have professionally trained teachers, and your students expect to leave the classroom understanding what you've taught them.

I cannot understand why anyone would target schools and teachers. These attacks amount to a denial of the human right to education for Afghanistan's children.

They gave you a string instrument - I got a violin. Gave it to me. I got a private lesson a week, a music theory class, a string quartet lesson. Then we all got together for the orchestra. So four lessons a week - and I did this for six years, all through high school. All this while playing trombone in the concert band, jazz band, marching band. And singing in the a cappella chorus and drama club. And on the side, I was in two rock bands, hack garage bands.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

It's a major step, and it's really an exciting opportunity for varsity teams to bring a new level and a more heightened level of competition. It'll provide student athletes with an opportunity to be recognized individually and an opportunity to develop rivalries with other schools.

I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people.

It has grown from a small commuter school of about 2,000 to 3,000 to now a beautiful school, gorgeous campus, great facilities, fantastic faculty. . . . We're located in Fairfax, in the beautiful rolling hills of Northern Virginia, two miles from Washington, D.C., the capital of our nation.

But he has nothing else to prove in college football. And I know he is going to do well up there.

This is a dream senior year for any college player. I thought about the NBA, but I wanted to win and I wanted to improve on where I left off as a junior.

I don't really care about if they're making money off me in college, ... They're paying for my education. If they're going to give me 65,000-plus to attend their university and they make 40-, 50-, 60 million I don't care. That degree will mean something to me forever.

They've been doing very well. They upset Boston University, so we're in no way underestimating them. We've got to be ready for them.

I think generally, people were pretty pleased that it wasn't as widespread as it could have been. But it's still a challenge for those schools, and we want to make sure they're cleaned up.

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

They offer areas of strength at the university, as well as challenges and recommendations.

Jay has proven he can coach at this level. What you will see with most MAC schools is that there will be good years followed by down years. That's something that will be taken into consideration. Jay is the only coach in the MAC to win two titles in the 2000s. We'll do what's best for the program.

I don't believe it should simply be you're expelled for a year, period, ... Safety issues, whether it's guns or anything else, we deal with all the time. A student in America has a right for an education. Expulsion is used very infrequently. Guns and weapons (incidents) are about the only mandatory expulsions we have.

You would hope there's a better balance. First and foremost for us are academics. Duke is not an easy school. It's not like we can miss so much class and have the players just bounce right back from it.

One of the problems we've experienced is dealing with parents who want to start paying for their child's education when they're juniors and seniors in high school. The College Board has tried to develop, through our web site, extensive planning tools such as a free scholarship locator and current college tuition costs.

A chef has a rare skill that requires a great deal of effort and study. People may feel less guilt because of that. I don't feel bad that a chef cooked me a meal, but I do feel bad that a waiter had to serve it to me.

That was not a call organized by the White House, and as far as I've been able to learn, no one at the White House was involved on that call.

So I had to learn, in the final analysis, that the Congress had a lot of say so into what we do in running HUD on a day-to-day basis.

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.

What that means is he was in a position of authority, similar to a teacher. Basically, he was in control of the situation because he was hired as her instructor.

Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.

Now, I'll take it upon myself to see stuff like that if I see that split turn around and make sure I see if there's a call, ... In practice you don't have to turn around, you can hear it. That's part of learning.

On the broader scale, we hope this event will contribute to their lifetime learning. It's becoming very important to know a foreign language in this world.

He was a great employee of the athletic department and will be greatly missed by his co-workers and friends here at the university.

TIPS training offers a highly specialized alcohol education program that pertains specifically to the college and university environment. In addition, they have over 20 years of experience in providing training that prevents underage drinking, drunk driving and intoxication. Their program has been proven effective and we want to see results.

I want big business to pay their share. We could create revenue to go back into our education fund. If we took back that lost revenue, we wouldn't have any more poor teachers.

He was the first person to befriend me at Harvard. At any rate, in some class the teacher gave us an exercise which I've used ever since.

Monies from the referendum only allow us to maintain our existing programs. We aren't adding anything else. We've had to make cuts and we're down to basically our base programs. Any future cuts will cut into our quality education.

It spans a 10-year period from about, like, 1955 to about 1965, ... Women didn't receive the same kind of education. You weren't expected to have a job. Birth control was not legal until the early '60s.

John Chaney and John Thompson made it possible for the black coach to get in the college game. Administrators need to win to keep their jobs. So when Chaney and Thompson won games, that's how black coaches got hired.

This has been a rough stretch for us, travel, school and practices. They gutted it out tonight because I know they didn't have a lot in that tank.

(Future Cities) is a very intense project. It involves teachers, parents and the community.

It started as a niche activity, and now it's moved on to a mainstream passion. It's a community activity, where friends from college, from work or any walk of life get together and compete and keep in touch.

Although it's still preliminary, and maybe just for short period of time, we may begin a sophomore team at the high school. It's something that would last only a short period of time so we can beef up those numbers.

This thing at Duke isn't going to wake up anything. You'd like to think that it would. You'd like to think this is one of those things that you talk to your kids about at home, that it's a teaching moment. But here's what people want to know about it - that it didn't happen, or that it didn't happen as it was first reported. And that's the unfortunate part - because something wrong happened there.

The big surprises were how many there were, and how far back they went. In learning about the names of the lawyers, I started thinking about what it must have been like.

He has always found ways to make sure that children could reach their full potential in school. It's obvious this educator is still educating and still making a difference. He was replanted and is still bearing fruit.