Quotes on Educational

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

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

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

So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.

The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

The examination of conscience has an important educational value. it teaches us to look sincerely at our own lives, to compare them with the truth of the Gospel and to evaluate them with parameters that are not only human but drawn from divine Revelation. Comparison with the Commandments, with the Beatitudes, and above all with the Precept to love, represents the first great 'school of penance

Today our (Society of Jesus) prime educational objective must be to form men (and women) for others; men (and women) who will live not for themselves but for God and his Christ - for the God-man who lived and died for all the world; men (and women) who cannot even conceive of love of God which does not include love for the least of their neighbors; men (and women) completely convinced that love of God which does not issue in justice for others is a farce.

There is no education like adversity.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

Employees who are controlled cannot respond caringly, you need superior knowledge and real leadership, not management. Because of this we specifically developed a selection process for leaders; we don't hire managers.

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.