School Education Quotes

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.

Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, the discouragement of efficiency, the stunting of character.

I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

Today, we are closer to fulfilling America's promise of economic and social justice because we stand on the shoulders of giants like Dr. King, yet our future progress will depend on how we prepare our next generation of leaders. We must fortify their ladders of opportunity by correcting social injustice, breaking the cycle of poverty in struggling communities, and reinvesting in our schools. Education can unlock a child's potential and remains our strongest weapon against injustice and inequality.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.

My Big Mama is my No. 1 financial role model. Much of my advice stems from what she taught me. She never made more than $13,000 a year, yet she paid off her home before she retired. She saved money from every paycheck. She taught me to be skeptical. It makes me cry to think that I'm a nationally syndicated personal finance columnist for one of the world's best newspapers and my core advice comes from my black grandmother who was a nurse's aide with just a high school education.

Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

This game has taken a lot of guys over the years who would have had to work in factories and gas stations and made them prominent people. I only had a high school education, and believe me, I had to cheat to get that. There isn't a college in the world that would have me and yet in this business you can walk into a room with millionaires, doctors, professional people and get more attention than they get. I don't know any other business where you can do that.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.

The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality.

A photographer is a photographer and an artist is an artist. I don't believe in labels or titles. Why should a painter or sculptor who has probably never challenged the rules be an artist just because his title and an art school education automatically make him one.

That's just how I see things on a base level: there's so much going on. Or at least I like to have that feeling. It's part of being interested in notions of reality apart from storytelling. I don't know if it has something to do with having an art school education, which makes you aware of the way visuals speak, or makes you trust them more.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

My mother didn't feel sorry for herself, she was left with no child support, no alimony at a very young age, with a child to raise, a high school education and she just figured it out. She didn't complain, she didn't rely upon government, she relied upon her own skill set, her own self confidence, her own drive in moxie and her own duty to me and her and she relied upon her family and her faith.

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

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

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

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

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.