READ THEM, THINK ABOUT THEM, APPLY THEM TO YOUR LIFE, KNOW THAT YOUR INSTRUCTORS APPLY THEM TO THEIR LIVES!
(If we don't know where the quote originated, it is not credited. Apologies to the authors!)
A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do, never does all he can.
- John Stuart Mill [top]
You can not teach students anything. You can only help them find it for themselves.
- Galileo [top]
Even a clock that's unplugged is right twice a day. [top]
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch [top]
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats [top]
Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde [top]
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
- G.K. Chesterton [top]
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle [top]
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
- Francis Bacon [top]
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
- Edward Gibbon [top]
Do not say, the people must be educated, when after all, you only mean amused, refreshed, soothed, put into good spirits and good humour, or kept from vicious excesses.
- John Henry Newman [top]
Education has really only one basic factor, a sine qua non* - one must want it.
- George Edward Woodberry [top]
*sine qua non = a necessity
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins [top]
Education: A debt due from present to future generations.
- George Peabody [top]
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
- B.F. Skinner [top]
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.
- Tryon Edwards [top]
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant [top]
The man who has ceased to learn ought not be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.
- M. M. Coady [top]
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
- T. H. Huxley [top]
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins [top]
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
- Bishop Mandell Creighton [top]
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts, but of values.
- Dean William R. Inge [top]
When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, “As much as the living are to the dead.”
- Diogenes Laertius [top]
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.
Teach a man how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.
Give a student a fact, you prepare her for one test question.
Teach a student how to think, you prepare her for a lifetime of learning. [top]
Learning is not a spectator sport. [top]
The person who does not read has few advantages over the one who can't. [top]
Learning is something students do, not something that is done to them. [top]
The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.
-- Dan Rather [top]
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner [top]
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne [top]
Just for today -
I will try to strengthen my mind.
I will study.
I will learn something useful.
I will not be a mental loafer.
I will read something that requires effort, thought, and concentration.
- Alcoholics Anonymous [top]
Peace comes not from the absence of conflict in life, but from the ability to cope with it.
- Albert Camus [top]
One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
- Sidney Howard [top]
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers [top]
One must study to know;
know to understand;
understand to judge.
- Apothegm of Narada [top]
A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper [top]
The mass grief expressed at the princess's (Diana of Wales) death exposed a society that has fallen away from the principles of reason and rationality on which it was founded.
We now have a culture in which feeling is more important than intelligibility, in which claims of compassion are elevated above principle, in which self-indulgence trumps duty.
The result is the weakening of those institutions - educational, religious and political - that require reason and restraint and a respect for truth if they are to be maintained and society kept on an even keel.
- Robert Sibley [top]
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it - even if I have said it - unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
- The Buddha [top]
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude ... is more important than facts,... than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do,... than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break an organization or home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace... We cannot change our past,...(or) the fact that people will act a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is rely on the one thing we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes.
- Charles Swindoll [top]
There are two ways to get to the top of an oak tree: you can climb it, or you can sit on an acorn. [top]
One of man's greatest enemies is the idea that there will be more time tomorrow than there is today. [top]
The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to. [top]
The shortest way to do everything is to do one thing at a time. [top]
You'll be happier if you work today and worry tomorrow. [top]
Some people dislike their work because they know nothing about it. [top]
There is plenty of room at the bottom for those who lack the ambition to climb. [top]
Blame yourself as you blame others, and forgive others as you forgive yourself. [top]
Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave nor lose. [top]
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
- J. Coudert [top]
The strength of a (person's) virtue is not to be measured by the efforts (s/he) makes under pressure but by her/his ordinary conduct.
- Pascal [top]
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
-- Bill Cosby [top]
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.
- T.H. Huxley [top]