Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
PlatoYou teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Samuel JohnsonOdd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Virginia WoolfI don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
Richard P. FeynmanThe problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
Thomas SowellNature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.
Neil ArmstrongI need physics more than friends.
J. Robert OppenheimerI’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.
Abby Lee MillerDiplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Henry KissingerNothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.
Lou HoltzImmense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew CarnegieI often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.
Henry David ThoreauIf you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas CarlyleI have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John SteinbeckOh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.
Charles SpurgeonThe Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘
Bill GatesEducation is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIn K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.
Bill GatesWe need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother TeresaThe best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
George Bernard ShawThe surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich NietzscheThe highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.
John KennedyNature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Marcus Tullius CiceroOnly that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch SpinozaThey know enough who know how to learn.
Henry AdamsWhat this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham BellThese people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
Christopher ColumbusA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
James MadisonNobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Alice WalkerA child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. KennedyIf one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.
AristotleIn fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.
LeBron JamesIt is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan PoeHorses make a landscape look beautiful.
Alice WalkerThe first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
John RuskinI didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
Lana Del ReyEven if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin LutherA word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret AtwoodThe best teacher is very interactive.
Bill GatesI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch SpinozaThe forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning, it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe.
John MuirWhat nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Marcus Tullius CiceroHuman subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da VinciI love the sea.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.
Jane GoodallPower means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
Beyonce KnowlesEverything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
Mark TwainWe have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
John F. KennedyThere is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
Thomas JeffersonYou learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.
Bad BunnyThe bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
Bill GatesMen are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand RussellWe are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
EpictetusIn various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.
Thomas SowellMan has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Elon MuskMan is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise PascalAn object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
Isaac NewtonUneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William ShakespeareThe business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Warren Buffett