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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American president

The era of low expectations and low standards is ending; a time of great hopes and proven results is arriving. And together, we are keeping a pledge: Every child in America will learn, and no child will be left behind…. George W. Bush.

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." Albert Einstein

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou

"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today." Malcolm X

“[T]he educational foundations of [U.S.] society [were] being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threaten[ed] our very future as a nation and a people.” A Nation at Risk, 1983

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. ~Mark Kennedy

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines. ~Erich Fromm

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. Carl Sagan

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember.

Involve me, and I'll understand.

Native American Saying

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.

Greek Proverb

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Publilius Syrus

Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Learning is like rowing upstream:

not to advance is to drop back.

Chinese Proverbs quotes

If anything concerns me, it's the oversimplification of something as complex as assessment. My fear is that learning is becoming standardized. Learning is idiosyncratic. Learning and teaching is messy stuff. It doesn't fit into bubbles.

Michele Forman, 2001 Teacher of the Year, quoted by the Associated Press.

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.

Mark Twain (1835–1910), U.S. author. "Following the Equator," ch. 61, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar (1897)

It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.

H. L. Mencken (1880–1956), U.S. journalist. "Travail," Baltimore Evening Sun (8 Oct. 1928)

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Maria Montessori

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Adolf Hitler

I think my deepest criticism of the educational system at that period [junior high and high school], and that also applies to other periods, is that it's all based upon a distrust of the student. Don't trust him to follow his own leads; guide him; tell him what to do; tell him what he should think; tell him what he should learn. Carl Rogers (1902 - ) U.S. psychologist, in R. Evans Carl Rogers: The Man and His Ideas, (1975), p. 39

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."

- Socrates

"Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

- Winston Churchill

"The only kind of learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered or self-appropriated learning - truth that has been assimilated in experience."

- Carl Rogers

"The teacher if he is indeed wise does not teach bid you to enter the house of wisdom but leads you to the threshold of your own mind."

- Kahlil Gilbran

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."

- William Arthur Ward.

"Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching."

- Oscar Wilde

"What I hear, I forget.

What I see, I remember.

What I do, I understand."

- Confucius

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

"Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"Cogito, ergo sum." (I think, therefore I am.)

- Descartes

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre."

- Gail Godwin

"There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live."

- John Adams

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul."

- Joseph Addison

" The paradox of education is precisely this-- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

- James Baldwin

"He who dares to teach must never cease to learn."

- Richard Henry Dann

“Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."

- Lee Iacocca

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- William Butler Yeats

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