Educational Quotes

in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and I hope you will have reason to be contended with his capacity & character.

music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.

The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you.

You can't unscramble eggs.

We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide it may, through the power of the Most Great Name, be blotted out from its face, and all mankind become the upholders of one Order, and the inhabitants of one City.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Train your staff (if you have any) to be always helpful, courteous, and knowledgeable. Most importantly, give every member of your staff enough information and power to make those small customer-pleasing decisions, so he never has to say, "I don't know, but so-and-so will be back at..."

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

It's very logical: There is proven ROI in doing whatever you can to turn your customers into advocates for your brand or business. The way to create advocates is to offer superior customer service.

We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.

You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.

The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer.

If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.

Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don't exceed the employees' expectations of management.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

If you're not serving the customer, your job is to be serving someone who is.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.

Every great business is built on friendship.

Customers don't expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.

In the world of Internet Customer Service, it's important to remember your competitor is only one mouse click away.

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

Customer satisfaction is worthless. Customer loyalty is priceless.

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Light tomorrow with today!

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together. The entanglements I experience in the classroom are often no more or less than the convolutions of my inner life. Viewed from this angle, teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see, I have a chance to gain self-knowledge-and knowing myself is as crucial to good teaching as knowing my students and my subject.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.