Education Quotes

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

~ Bryant Mcgill

A friend is he who can feel your heart's beating and dance with it when it is joyful, cry with it when it is torn, and inspire when it is in need.

~ Debasish Mridha

If your vision inspires others to see their dreams and your actions motivate them to realize it, then you are a leader.

~ Debasish Mridha

A leader creates a new way to success for followers and inspires them to follow him toward the ultimate purpose.

~ Debasish Mridha

Service is the highest form of worship.

~ Debasish Mridha

You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.

~ Homer Hickam

Aside from the straightforwardly visible curriculum, there is the hidden curriculum. This exists in the wider set of beliefs and values pupils acquire because of the way that a school is run and its teaching organized. It is about the behaviour of the teachers, the textbooks chosen, the school rules.

~ Gary Thomas

To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Education about gender and peace is important. Educational strategies to promote peace must consider all relations of dominance.

~ Widad Akreyi

In Anton Chekhov’s play the Three Sisters, sister Masha refuses ‘to live and not know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why the stars are in the sky. Either you know and you’re alive or it’s all nonsense, all dust in the wind.’ Why? Why? The striving to know is what frees us from the bonds of self, said Einstein. It’s the striving to know, rather than our knowledge-which is always tentative and partial- that is important. Instead of putting computers in our elementary schools, we should take the children out into nature, away from those virtual worlds in which they spend unconscionable hours, and let them see an eclipsed Moon rising in the east, a pink pearl. Let them stand in a morning dawn and watch a slip of a comet fling its trail around the Sun…Let the children know. Let them know that nothing, nothing will find in the virtual world of e-games, television, or the Internet matters half as much as a glitter of strs on an inky sky, drawing our attention into the incomprehensible mystery of why the universe is here at all, and why we are here to observe it. The winter Milky Way rises in the east, one trillion individually invisible points of light, one trillion revelations of the Ultimate Mystery, conferring on the watcher a dignity, a blessedness, that confounds the dull humdrum of the commonplace and opens a window to infinity.

~ Chet Raymo

Graduating from college doesn't mean you're smart, said Mike Mussina who graduated from Stanford in 3 1/2 years, but it does mean you're smart enough to know that having a college degree would be a good thing.

~ John Feinstein

Education is a choice. We don't become educated by watching television, and we don't learn a whole lot having similar conversations with the same, safe people day after day. Our education comes from pushing up against boundaries, from taking risks that may seem at first to be overwhelming, and by persevering past the first disappointments or shortfalls until we reach a point at which actual learning takes place. Determination and perseverance are absolutely vital to developing a true education--rarely, if ever, do we learn the most valuable lessons in the first few steps of the journey.

~ Tom Walsh

The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is the ultimate purpose of our life and you find it in service.

~ Debasish Mridha

There is only one way to happiness and that is through service.

~ Debasish Mridha

Life becomes invaluable when we spend it in the service of others.

~ Debasish Mridha

The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

You're so haunted by other people's futures that you forget, the only future you cannot see is your own.

~ Minority Report (Tv Show)

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

~ Mark Twain

Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in funny wigs who came before us. But that's because we are mistaking technology, progress, and access to information for intelligence. We think that because we know how to use iPhones (but not build them), browse the Internet (but not understand how it works), and use Google (but not really know anything), our educational system is working just great. By the same token, we think that those dumb aristocrats who used horses to get around and didn't have electricity were neanderthals.

~ Glenn Beck

Happiness is an inner perception, not an outer realistic conception.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is not in perfection but it is a perception in the midst of imperfection.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is there when perceptions and expectations are in joyful harmony.

~ Debasish Mridha

Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception, not on the situation.

~ Debasish Mridha

Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Vision differentiates between a follower and a leader.

~ Debasish Mridha

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The essence of education is not to get a certificate or job but, to be a holistically developed person who can positively impact the society.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Somebody is born. Somebody goes to school. Somebody learns to conform. Somebody types a CV. Somebody gets a job. Somebody follows orders. Somebody gets a golden watch. And then, eventually, Somebody dies. And, a Nobody is buried.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A vagina is an uneducated woman’s diploma.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear “cradle to grave” construct, then several tools for managing this reality are increasingly proving redundant. Job descriptions used for hiring are one such example. Hiring managers often write these as a reflection of their own experiences, ignoring the fact that we are entering an era where the emphasis should be less on ready competence and more on transferable skills.

~ Gyan Nagpal

One can earn a thousand credentials but remain unemployed.

~ Joseph Ohler

Just as a CEO could care less about pay equity, the university administrator is unconcerned with how many of her program graduates secure employment of any particular quality.

~ Joseph Ohler

An education system is best belittled when the so-called educated gets hired by a company that’s owned by a so-called dropout.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

School is a factory where the raw material called student is turned into a product called employee.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You know you are capitalism’s ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana