Education Quotes

The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me.

~ David Foster Wallace

When the Indians saw us whipping our children, they thought at first that we must hate our children, but then they thought, no, no one can hate his child. They decided it must be a religious rite, to make the child hate this world and long for the next. We're a strange vicious people.

~ Isabel Miller

To solve your problems, stop worrying.

~ Debasish Mridha

Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of being intervals of freedom, they are breeding grounds for advancement. Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting everything on the smorgasbord to have life-altering encounters. They have a terror of closing off options. They have been inculcated with a lust for prestige and a fear of doing things that may put their status at risk.

~ David Brooks

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

~ Neel Burton

Quoting an experienced school counselor: You can't change a bully into a flower child, but you can change him into a knight.

~ Leonard Sax

One of the ironies of college is that the impossibility of reading your way out of the modern predicament is something you learn about, as a student, by reading. Part of the value of a humanistic education has to do with a consciousness of, and a familiarity with, the limits that you’ll spend the rest of your life talking about and pushing against.

~ Joshua Rothman

The closer we come to understanding the challenges of autism, the better we are placed to accommodate and educate without risking removing that individuality we all love.

~ Adele Devine

I never drank from the fountain of knowledge, I had mine on the rocks.

~ Tim Fargo

For a poet, it will be terrible if there are no women. He will not have anything to write about.

~ Debasish Mridha

Curiosity is the primary fuel that drives lifelong education.

~ Dhaval Gajera

Whereas Taft discouraged the young Yale student from extracurricular reading, fearful it would detract from required courses, Roosevelt read widely yet managed to stand near the top of his class. The breath of his numerous interests allowed him to draw on knowledge across various disciplines, from zoology in philosophy and religion, from poetry and drama to history and politics.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

In the real world, the tests are all open book.

~ Jeff Jarvis

Be curious! Curiosity is the mother of all knowledge.

~ Debasish Mridha

Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory, therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.

~ Catherine The Great

Rather than literally burning the midnight oil, which he judged to be unhealthy, John Adams advised his son to make the most of college by developing an inquisitive outlook that would prompt him to get to know the most exceptional scholars and question them closely. Ask them about their tutors, manner of teaching. Observe what books lie on their tables. Fall into questions of literature, science, or what you will.

~ David Mccullough

For Jefferson, William and Mary was largely about what university life is supposed to be about: reading books, enjoying the company of like-minded, and savoring teachers who seemed to be ambassadors from other, richer, writer worlds. Jefferson believed Williamsburg the finest school of manners and morals that ever existed in America.

~ Jon Meacham

The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?

~ Jim Elliot

A leader is firm enough to be responsive to changes.

~ Debasish Mridha

Truth is so rare. I wonder why it is and where you are?

~ Debasish Mridha

In School of One, students have daily playlists of their learning tasks that are attuned to each student's learning needs, based on that student's readiness and learning style. For example, Julia is way ahead of grade level in math and learns best in small groups, so her playlist might include three or four videos matched to her aptitude level, a thirty-minute one-on-one tutoring session with her teacher, and a small group activity in which she works on a math puzzle with three peers at similar aptitude levels. There are assessments built into each activity so that data can be fed back to the teacher to choose appropriate tasks for the next playlist.

~ Eric Ries

Be kind! Go and burn the world with the fire of your love.

~ Debasish Mridha

Decision and purpose directed actions define destination.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness comes from actions.

~ Debasish Mridha

If you want to be educated and wise, you must open your heart, expand your mind, be accepting and ready to change.

~ Debasish Mridha

Schooling gives you knowledge, but education makes you wise.

~ Debasish Mridha

To be knowledgeable, learn new things every day; to be wise, unlearn things that you learn with wit and love.

~ Debasish Mridha

Our goal of all goals and ultimate purpose of life is happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is the goal of all goals and ultimate purpose of our life.

~ Debasish Mridha

The process of letting go is an act of accepting.

~ Debasish Mridha

Imagine this:Ice is coming to YOUR house.Can you HEAR it knocking?Are you ready?What will YOU do?

~ Cornelia Connie D. Dedona

It is a tragedy, at rate at which EBOLA VIRUS is spreading in West Africa. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can help prevent the spread. International cooperation is urgently needed to combat the EBOLA virus.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The military was providing him (George H.W. Bush) with an education that was not available at Andover or Yale.

~ George W. Bush

When it comes to the education of our young, this privilege should only be given to those whose visions are solely in the uplifting benefit of the child. There is no room for the ego in the education of children! Children should not be looked after, nor educated, by those who have not made a sacrifice within their hearts, laying down their own personal agenda and dreams, for the total ascension of the child. Even if you are to educate the children simply sitting under a tree; if you have the vision and the heart of a sage, those children will grow to be mighty men and women under your watch! And even if you wine and dine the children, putting them up in a palace; if you do not have the vision and the selfless heart of a sage, all you do is in utter vanity!

~ C. Joybell C.

The more you learn, the more you will be able to see, feel, love, enjoy, and understand.

~ Debasish Mridha

To learn, read; to understand, participate.

~ Debasish Mridha

Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it.

~ Paul Bamikole

I am not proud that i know so much. I am humbled that there is so much to learn, and i haven't been able to understand the little i have been priviledged to know.

~ Paul Bamikole

The easiest way to have a peek behind the curtain is to learn from those that are ahead of you.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I learn, I earn.

~ Santosh Kalwar