Quotes by Education How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. Alexandre Dumas stupid education children One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never. Alexandre Dumas teaching education math Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds. Alexis Arguello differences education people If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women. Alexis de Tocqueville women growing education There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. Alexis de Tocqueville reading education drama Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered. Alfie Kohn education teacher school Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards. Alfie Kohn intelligence education people The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power. Alfred Adler education motivational inspirational There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. Alfred Korzybski education life believe Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson wise education life Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one). Alfred Marshall economics exception education From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery. Alfred North Whitehead music education children Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful. Alfred North Whitehead useless education ideas Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long. Alfred North Whitehead fate education long Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well. Alfred North Whitehead education teacher inspirational In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated. Alfred North Whitehead education science moving Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned. Alfred North Whitehead real education book A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity. Alfred North Whitehead education success opportunity The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical. Alfred North Whitehead antithesis adequate education All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to learn as long as they are not fit for any other occupation, until they are able to read English writing well. Alfred the Great education writing men «345678910111213»