Quotes by Education I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling. Agatha Christie education math father I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas. Agatha Christie learning education children There is no liberal education for the under-languaged. Agnes Repplier liberal-education language education It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother. Agnes Repplier brother education children The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned. Agnes Repplier teaching easy education Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind. Agnes Smedley education men book In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses. Aime Martin degrees soul education My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems. Akio Morita education jobs people Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution. Al Capp educational-institutions educational education I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world. Al Green church education world Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence. Al MacInnis self-confidence independence education 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. Al McGuire basketball college education Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore. Al Pacino learning education school The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country. Al Sharpton government education country To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills. Alan Greenspan business education success Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word. Alan K. Simpson grace healing education An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. Alan K. Simpson education men thinking By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice. Alan Kay couple education teacher We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free. Alan Keyes education country children A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily. Alan Watts buddhism learning education «1234567891011»