Quotes
Quotes about End
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.
But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away! Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day-- In sighing and dismay.
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' ends.
My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other.
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. -Joseph Joubert.
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.
I realize it's hard not to churn your problems and I'm not idealistically saying you shouldn't. Still, you can learn to manage your non-efficient thinking and emotions. Just learn to be as conscious of your *mental and emotional energy expenditures and returns* as you are conscious of your dollar expenditures and returns. Remember the mental and emotional budget sheet. If you *halfway* play with this concept, it can give you a new perspective on energy economy. -Doc Childre.
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
If the end be well, all will be well. [Lat., Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit.]
