~ Education Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Last words when sending our boy to college: 'If there's anything you want call us and we'll show you how to live without it.'

Anonymous

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It was going all wrong at my college interview until I nonchalantly asked 'Do you need any large donations for new buildings?'

Todd Anderson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]To the extent that we are all educated and informed we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.

Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

David T. Kearns

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I won't say ours was a tough school but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'What I'm Going to Be if I Grow Up.'

Lenny Bruce

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

Bill Gates

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The world is governed more by appearances than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

Daniel Webster

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Education today more than ever before must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.

James Mason Wood

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Bertrand Russell

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Arrogance pedantry and dogmatism are the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Henry S. Canby

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

Clark Kerr

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Clarence Day

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]One little six-year-old took home a note saying he need not come to school since he was 'too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas Edison.

Anonymous