Quotes on Educational

One customer well taken care of could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising.

I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.

My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools nearby that educate children, free of charge... It means building a world fit for children, where every child can grow to adulthood in health, peace and dignity.

Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when you think you are mastering them - it is nonetheless perpetually fascinating, frequently surprising, occasionally rewarding, and it comes already assembled. [...] Alas! the brain is a toy that plays games of its own. Its very most favorite game is the one-thing-leads-to-another game.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to pass before people are grown up ... Adolescence is nurtured and prolonged by educational processes and by industry that has found a bonanza in embracing the adolescent population and fortifying 'adolescent values.' This prolongation of adolescence robs the country of the population group having the most risk takers, and the highest ideals.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.