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I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.
The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids through college.
Education is all about igniting young minds and enabling them to attain their fullest potential.
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.
He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.
A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.
In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.
I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.
You can't continue to have higher education tuition grow at a multiple of the rate of inflation.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.
Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.
Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.
The wealth that increases by giving, That wealth is knowledge and is supreme of all possessions.
A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.
Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.
When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, Not to unlearn what you have learned!
If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?
We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.
I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
Don't try to change or tear your brother down, let him make his mistakes and he will come around.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.
A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.
As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.
The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
To explain too much is to steal a person's opportunity to learn, and stealing is against the Law.
We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.