Quotes by Education Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. Allan Bloom education trying might An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment. Allan Bloom impediments seems education The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him. Allan Bloom college education years Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear. Allan Sherman purple education teacher It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual. Allen Klein said education people We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education. Allen Weinstein records education attention A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat. Allen West army education men Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. Alphonse Karr latin education art The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. Alvin Toffler illiterate-person teaching education Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb Alvin Toffler chinese learning education Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent. Amanda Ripley boredom education children we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world. Amartya Sen fighting goes-on education The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own Amartya Sen ignorance education opportunity I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you Amber Tamblyn play education thinking Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. Ambrose Bierce wisdom wise education Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. Ambrose Bierce education math thinking Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. Ambrose Bierce kind ignorance education The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples. Amos Bronson Alcott teaching education teacher As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind. Amos Bronson Alcott privilege mind education A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. Amos Bronson Alcott education teacher inspirational «56789101112131415»