Quotes on Educational

Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind.

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

There is a perception in our communities that we have low educational outcomes in low-income communities because kids aren't motivated or families don't care. We've discovered that is not the case.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Since the end of the 1970s, something has gone profoundly wrong in America. Inequality has soared. Educational progress slowed. Incarceration rates quintupled. Family breakdown accelerated. Median household income stagnated.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.