Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Education Quotes
ChildrenEducationStoriesVirtue We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
BackgroundEconomicsEducationEngineeringPhysics My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.
ControversyEducationPersonal ExperienceReligionSports I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
ChildhoodEducationFamily Values I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.
ChildcareEducationParentingSchool SystemSociety K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.
Education My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
ArtEducationKnowledgePhilosophyScience A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
AutonomyEducationEmpowermentLeadershipPersonal Growth I always try to get people a different outlook. When you do that, people take ownership of the information. They don't ever have to reference me because, I'd like to believe as an educator, I'm empowering them to have those thoughts themselves.
AdaptabilityChangeEducationLearningLifelong Learning We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
ChangeCurriculumEducationInnovationObsolescence When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
AccessibilityChild DevelopmentEducationFuture PlanningWorkforce Development It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
EducationEnlightenmentJourneyKnowledgeTruth Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
EducationFamily ValuesIntegrity If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
AmbitionEducationExplorationLife S JourneyPlanning I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.
CreativityEducationHumorIndependenceSelf-Expression It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.
EducationImpressionKnowledgeLearningPerception The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
EducationGovernanceInstabilityPower DynamicsSocial Change It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
CreativityEducationExpressionInfluenceLiterature At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
EducationLearningPassionProcessTechnique One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.
DevelopmentEducationFuture GenerationsPrioritizationResource Allocation The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
Character DevelopmentEducationKnowledge and MoralityPersonal GrowthSchool Curriculum Erudition - that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic - is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.
EducationHeartHolistic DevelopmentMind Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
EducationHygieneLong-term ImpactSocietal Change Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
DevelopmentEducationEqualitySociety Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
Child DevelopmentEducationLearningLiteracyReading The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.
CuriosityEducationKnowledgeLearningPragmatism I don't like to read fiction. I like to learn something when I'm reading.
