Learning Quotes
Quote : Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers.
Elliot Masie
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Quote : There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.
Ernest Hemingway
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Quote : There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'Connor
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Quote : Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Gail Godwin
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Quote : Education: a debt due from present to future generations.
George Peabody
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Quote : College life was born in revolt. Not just the insubordination inherent in youth, but a wave of violent, collective uprisings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against the combined authority of college professors and presidents.
Helen Horowitz
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Quote : Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Henry Steele Commager
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Quote : Part of a teacher's success depends on personality, and the common denominator in the personality of good teachers is their ability to stimulate students to work on problems when the teacher is not there. The teacher then checks the ability of the student to think rather than regurgitate facts.
J. Willis Hurst
Quote : Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. Letter accepting Presidential nomination, 1880
James Abram Garfield
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Quote : The principal goal of education... should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things... men and women who are creative, inventive, and discoverers.
Jean Piaget
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Quote : Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann W. von Goethe
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Quote : Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
John Dewey
Quote : Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
John F. Kennedy
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Quote : Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
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Quote : A child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy
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