Education Quotes

Let my love show you the way and give you guidance in the moment of need.

~ Debasish Mridha

Simplicity, not cleverness, can be the source of happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.

~ Ken Scott

Education is political.

~ Noel Castree

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God, but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

~ Isaac Newton

A high education is a key to get desired job but the skill stay you on.

~ Amama Sheikh

Be kind to humanity, she is very lonely, everyone is busy with themselves.

~ Debasish Mridha

It is a shame that the very people who used education to clamber out of the disadvantages they had grown up in, have drawn up the ladder after them.

~ Nana Ama Amamoo

By the Middle Ages… the introduction of the Trivium was well-known: SÂDI, an educated black from Tombouctou, author of the well-known work entitled, ‘Tarikh es-Soudan’ cites amongst the subjects that he mastered, logic, dialection, grammar, rhetoric, not to mention law and other disciplines...the long lists of subjects studied and the lettered African intellectuals who taught them at the University of Tombouctou…

~ Cheikh Anta Diop

If literacy was natural, the word ‘illiteracy’ would not exist.

~ T.k. Naliaka

Africa is a huge continent; it would take several lifetimes of thousands of researchers testing in hundreds of languages to collect a valid sample of anything, especially IQ. Most Africans do their schooling in a second language, not their mother tongue. How many people would accept to be tested for their IQ level not in their primary language?

~ T.k. Naliaka

Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends.

~ Daoud Hari

What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?

~ Daoud Hari

For kids who are exposed to books at home, the loss of a library is sad. But for kids who come from environments where people don't read, the loss of a library is a tragedy hat might keep them from ever discovering the joys of reading-or from gathering the kind of information that will decide their lot in life.

~ Michael Moore

The 2 greatest equalizers in life: Education and the Internet.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Persistence is a necessary ingredient for success.

~ Debasish Mridha

Artists and intellectuals are not he same animal. This causes a great deal of confusion. Our schools teach educate us intellectually but not artistically. We learn to deconstruct art, not construct it.

~ Julia Cameron

Don’t care about day to day things, don’t care about the mundane, but care about what matters.

~ Debasish Mridha

A good lover is a person who knows how to love deeply but never expects any in return.

~ Debasish Mridha

A fish in a bowl thinks to know it all, for it has never seen the ocean.

~ Daniel Andersson

A rich person who has no love in his heart is poorer than a poor person who has no money in his pocket.

~ Debasish Mridha

Every moment is important, like the moment that takes away your life.

~ Debasish Mridha

On evenings, I spent the entire study period reading....From that time on, the world began to broaden around me, beyond any tangible limits. The world, as portrayed in those works destined for young people, was divided in two: an ordinary, everyday world, brutal and unresponding to desires, and a spacious, logical world, about all kind, interesting and desirable. Wasn't the very act of reading a pleasure more substantial than that of playing or eating, for instance, even when one was starved?

~ Joseph Zobel

There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience - the final end of human progress.

~ Charles A. Coulombe

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

~ Walker Percy

Well, Jack, we have taken the Macedonian, and your share of the prize, if we get her in safely, may be two hundred dollars; what will you do with it?” Stephen Decatur, commanding the frigate United States, North Atlantic, near the Azores Islands, 1812.“One hundred will go to my mother, sir, and the other I shall spend on schooling.” Jack Creamer, aged ten.

~ Irvin Anthony

To see the true beauty of a person, see through the mirror of your love.

~ Debasish Mridha

The secret of a successful life isn't the success but happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Secretly we fear ourselves, not the fear itself.

~ Debasish Mridha

The secret of life is love, but the purpose of life is happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

In the garden of my heartFlowers of loves were bloomingNot just to express the beauty But to spread the fragrance Of happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Only dead mathematics can be taught where competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

~ Mary Everest Boole

The issue, then, is not, What is the best way to teach? but, What is mathematics really all about?... Controversies about…teaching cannot be resolved without confronting problems about the nature of mathematics.

~ Reuben Hersh

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

~ Blaise Pascal

Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education.

~ Peter Hilton

Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.

~ Daniel J. Siegel

Fortunately, our colleges and universities are fully cognizant of the problems I have been delineating and take concerted action to address them. Curricula are designed to give coherence to the educational experience and to challenge students to develop a strong degree of moral awareness. Professors, deeply involved with the enterprise of undergraduate instruction, are committed to their students' intellectual growth and insist on maintaining the highest standards of academic rigor. Career services keep themselves informed about the broad range of postgraduate options and make a point of steering students away from conventional choices. A policy of noncooperation with U.S. News has taken hold, depriving the magazine of the data requisite to calculate its rankings. Rather than squandering money on luxurious amenities and exorbitant administrative salaries, schools have rededicated themselves to their core missions of teaching and the liberal arts. I'm kidding, of course.

~ William Deresiewicz

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it.

~ Margaret Atwood

Share your love, share your happiness; you will be rich and a great success.

~ Debasish Mridha

If we had the chance to live forever, life would lose its charm for something better.

~ Debasish Mridha