Education Quotes

As one 1935 study put it, boys and girls who were 15 or 16 in 1929 when the Depression began are no longer children; they are grown-ups – adults who had never, since they left school, had anything productive to do; adults in the embittered by years of suffering and hardship. The President's Advisory Commission on Education was to warn of a whole lost generation of young people.

~ Robert A. Caro

Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hopelessness. But not always. Politics is also a great educator. Mostly it teaches, I am afraid, cynicism. But not always. Television is a great educator as well. Mostly it teaches consumerism. But not always. It is the not always that keeps the romantic spirit alive in those who write about schooling. The faith is that despite some of the more debilitating teachings of culture itself, something can be done in school that will alter the lenses through which one sees the world; which is to say, that nontrivial schooling can provide a point of view from which what IS can be seen clearly, what WAS as a living present, and what WILL BE as filled with possibility

~ Neil Postman

Many of my classmates have happier memories of Blessed Sacrament, and in time I would find my own satisfaction in the classroom. My first years there, however, I met with little warmth. In part, it was that the nuns were critical of working mothers, and their disapproval was felt by latchkey kids. The irony of course was that my mother wouldn't have been working such long hours if not to pay for that education she believed was the key to any aspirations for a better life.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

He was confronted at an early age with adult-strength realizations about powerlessness, desperation, and distrust, taking his dose right alongside the overwhelmed adults. This steady stream of shocks and realizations leaves so many boys raised in poor, urban areas stumbling toward manhood with a hardened exterior masking deep insecurities.

~ Ron Suskind

Poor people have poor options. Chavez found the Army almost by accident, and had found it a true open of security and opportunity and fellowship and respect.

~ Tom Clancy

As every slumdweller knew, there were three main ways out of poverty: finding an entrepreneurial niche, as the Husains had found in garbage; politics and corruption, in which Asha placed her hopes; and education.

~ Katherine Boo

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

~ Nicholas D. Kristof

I'd been exposed to alternate ways of thinking and it seriously affected the way my mother had reared me.

~ S.a. Tawks

Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school.

~ S.a. Tawks

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.

~ Isabel Paterson

To build a church when a school house is needed is to perpetrate a theft upon education.To build a church when a hospital is needed is to take from the parched lips of the sick the cup of relief and from the suffering the merciful hand of help.When the object of man's conduct will be to improve the conditions of his fellow man and not the appeasement of a mythical God, he will become more understanding and more indulgent of the frailties, mistakes, and action of others, and by the same token he will become more appreciative of their efforts.He will develop a greater consciousness to avoid mistakes and to prevent injury. Life and its living will take on a greater significance, and our efforts and energies will be devoted to creating as much joy and happiness as possible for all living creatures.

~ Joseph Lewis

Infants never learn to soothe themselves to sleep. They learn, abandoned in seclusion, that no matter the volume of their despondence, no matter the force of their tears, when they are alone and frightened, no-one will ever come to their rescue. Infants do not soothe themselves. They merely surrender. And it is caged in their cribs where the infants learn, in the face of their demons, to remain silent and submitting.

~ C. Sean Mcgee

In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.

~ Thiruvalluvar

How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ... and actually they are the majority. ... We have here a problem that is not easy of solution, but yet must engage the attention of all who wish to devote themselves to education.

~ Henri Poincaré

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to comprehend the world about him, and science gives today the only world picture which we can consider as valid. It gives an understanding of the inside of the atom and of the whole universe, or the peculiar properties of the chemical substances and of the manner in which genes duplicate in biology. An educated layman can, of course, not contribute to science, but can enjoy and participate in many scientific discoveries which as constantly made. Such participation was quite common in the 19th century, but has unhappily declined. Literacy in science will enrich a person's life.

~ Hans Bethe

Alice leaned first one way and then the other, down the line of children. She said, Is everybody understanding this?One child said, The misuse of power is the root of all evil?Alice said, Well....Another child said, There is no justice on the earth?Alice said, Well...Another child said, We are all alone in the world?Alice said, Well...Another child said, The greatest depth of our loss is the beginning of true freedom?Alice said, Well...Another child said, The disposal of human waste is the responsibility of the brokenhearted?These were all phrases Alice had put on the chalkboard after other field trips. It occurred to Alice, hearing these phrases now, that she might have attempted to do too much with a class of fourth graders. She was willing to admit to some excesses.Alice said, Just listen.

~ Lewis Nordan

When we look back, it becomes clear that the acts and accomplishments of human beings are the signatures of history. Human signatures have created an enormous chasm between the joyeous light of the age of the Renaissance to the dark shadow of September 11, 2001. Those of us living on that fateful day experienced the lower depths of mankind. As an author, avid reader, world traveler, and person of enormous curiosity, my life experiences have taught me that discord often erupts from a lack of knowledge and education. To discourage future dark moments, I believe we must nourish the minds of our young with learning that creates understanding between ethnic and religious groups. Perhaps understanding will lead to a marvelous day when we take a last fleeting look at violence so harmful to so many. I sincerely believe that nothing will further the cause of peace more than the education of our young. I would like for readers to know that a percentage of the profits from the sale of this book will be devoted to the cause of education.May all roads lead to peace.

~ Jean Sasson

Happiness is the fragrance, not the fruit of an action.

~ Debasish Mridha

Not the action, but the expectation creates results.

~ Debasish Mridha

A leader first tries to listen, then tries to understand, then creates a common vision and then together takes action for the realization.

~ Debasish Mridha

A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success.

~ Debasish Mridha

Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness does not depend on a possession. Happiness depends on action and perception.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness comes from action, not from reaction. It is a feeling, not the success, but the perception.

~ Debasish Mridha

Love is the source of all creation, happiness is the essence of all action.

~ Debasish Mridha

When you take an action with love, there is always happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

When you take an action to improve humanity, you are happy.

~ Debasish Mridha

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

~ Plato

A good poem has rhyming but no ending, it continues to rhyme in our heart.

~ Debasish Mridha

Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom.

~ Debasish Mridha

Wisdom is the byproduct of lifelong experience and education.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is not an experience, but the essence of experience.

~ Debasish Mridha

Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?

~ Julian Fellowes

Intuition is educated by experience and employed by curiosity.

~ Jim Blasingame

The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.

~ Pat Conroy

Education is like a seed, that when watered with knowledge and experience, grows into true wisdom.

~ Richard S. Hartmetz

..all subjects are forms of discourse and that, therefore, almost all education is a form of language education. Knowledge of a subject mostly means knowledge of the language of that subject. Biology, after all, is not plants and animals; it is a special language employed to speak about plants and animals. History is not events that once occurred; it is a language describing and interpreting events, according to rules established by historians. Astronomy is not planets and stars but a special way of talking about planets and stars, quite different from the language poets use to talk about them.

~ Neil Postman

Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand.

~ Debasish Mridha

Standard languages are inventions, most of them confined to a recent period in human history. They are codes that give access not to clear thinking and basic decency but to the structured parts of our lives such as job interviews, political speeches, literary essays, novels, and the like. They signal education and learning, but they are not the same thing as education and learning.

~ Robert Lane Greene

If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it never has.

~ Robert Lane Greene