EDUCATION
EDUCATION - 1
“This means everlasting life, their coming to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.” – Jesus Christ – John 17:3 – The BIBLE
The wisdom of the wise, the experience of the ages, may be preserved by quotation. – Benjamin Disraeli
The man who makes things easy is an educator. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son. – Jewish Talmud
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instructions. – Annie Sullivan
If a man neglects his education, he walks lame to the end of his life. – Plato
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin
“What does it say about our priorities when the least successful athlete makes more money than our most successful teacher?” – H. Jackson Brown – WHEN YOU LICK A SLUG YOUR TONGUE GOES NUMB
I’ve learned that the best classroom in the world is at the foot of some elderly person. – Andy Rooney
‘They’ insisted that our schools must boot God out, and rely on ‘Junior’s’ intelligence. So we graduated a generation of juniors with refined intellects and undisciplined emotions—so school age suicides soared 92% in the last two years! – Paul Harvey
To often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. – Ralph Lewin
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool, and he who does not is a slave. – William Drummond
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education. – Victor Hugo
People who value their privileges above principles soon lose both. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
A good leader can’t get too far ahead of his followers. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
It does not matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop. – Confucius
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed for our prisons. – John Ruskin
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. – Helen Keller
It is easier to build strong children than it is to repair broken men. – Frederick Douglass
The less you talk, the more you’re listened to. – Abigail Van Buren
EDUCATION - 2
“These words that I am commanding you today must be on your heart, and you must inculcate them in your sons and speak to them when you sit in your house and you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.” – Moses – Deut. 6:6,7 – The BIBLE – 1473 B.C.E.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can never fool all of the people all of the time. – Abraham Lincoln
College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage – George Gobel
The illiteracy level of our children are appalling. – George W. Bush
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. – Carol Burnett
People will pay more to be entertained than to be educated. – Johnny Carson
Two things are infinite—the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not too sure about the universe. – Albert Einstein
“Even toddlers can start learning self-control. “If a child cries and cries for a piece of candy at the grocery store and you give it to her, you have just taught her that crying is an effective way to get what she wants. The next time she wants something, she will cry and whine because that worked last time.” – Dr. Jean M. Twenge – GENERATION ME
Every book is a children’s book if the kid can read. – Mitch Hedberg
Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care. – Theodore Roosevelt
Film is one of the three universal languages; the other two—mathematics and music. – Frank Capra
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. – Voltaire
A library implies an act of faith. – Victor Hugo
‘They’ told us that, if we’d just be more generous with poor folks, there’d be no motive for stealing anymore. So we gave everyone a guaranteed income—and robbery, burglary, larceny and auto theft are running 15% ahead of a year ago. – Paul Harvey
He doesn’t know the meaning of the word ‘fear.’ In fact, I just saw his grades, and he doesn’t know the meaning of a lot of words. – (Coach) Bobby Bowden
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. – Johan von Goethe
By and large, language is a tool for concealing truth. – George Carlin
EDUCATION - 3
“Then Jesus went on say to the Jews who had believed him: “If you remain in my word, you are really my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”” – Jesus Christ – John 8:31,32 – Apostle John – The BIBLE
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could ever give a person; he believed in me. – (Coach) Jim Valvano
I think there is a world market for about 5 computers. – Thomas J. Watson, chairman of IBM. – 1943
“You must floss your teeth, if you want to keep them. You must study with your children, if you want to keep them.” – Joseph Siranko (Traveling minister)
If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word. – Dave Barry
No great genius has ever existed without a touch of madness. – Aristotle
Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn’t need one. – Alec Guiness
There is no harm in repeating a good thing. – Plato
The Lord gave us two ends—one to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most. – Ann Landers
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom – M. Scott Peck
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? – David Sarnoff’s associates on radio future in 1920.
It’s better to give children rules to break rather than no rules at all. – Tipper Gore
A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education. – Smiley Blanton M.D.
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorant in the community. – Oscar Wilde
Prejudices, it is well known, are the most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education. They grow there, firm as weeds among stones. – Charlotte Bronte
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. – (General) Omar Bradley
Eighty per cent of all questions are statements in disguise. – Dr. Phil McGraw
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wished we didn’t. – Erica Jong
I know it all, I just can’t remember it all at once. – Gary Pulliam
EDUCATION - 4
“Now when they saw the outspokenness of Peter and John, and they perceived that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were astonished. And they began to realize that they had been with Jesus.” – Apostle Physician Luke – Acts 4:13 – The BIBLE
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. – Jerry M. Wright
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however distant or far away. – Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom is knowing what to do next—Skill is knowing how to do it—Virtue is doing it. – YES!
Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. – Henry Ford
Just remember, I know a whole lot more about being young than you know about being old. – A father to his teenage son
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. – Plato
You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view. – Harper Lee – TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts—the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. – John Ruskin
Science is not only compliant with spirituality—it’s a profound source of spirituality. – Carl Sagan
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. – Lao Tzu
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read. – Oscar Wilde
Don’t squat with your spurs on. – Will Rogers
In every culture with a written history, there has always been a hope for the future, spurred on by the preservation of family and the eternal search for God. – Gary Pulliam
There are some people that if they don’t know, you can’t tell ‘em. – Louis Armstrong
A fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to us who do. – Harold Coffin
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding. – Mohandas Gandhi
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. – Blaise Pascal
EDUCATION - 5
“Go, therefore, and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And look, I am with you all the days until the conclusion of this system of things.” – Jesus Christ –Matt. 28:19,20 – Apostle Matthew – The BIBLE
It’s better to aim at perfection and miss it than it is to aim at imperfection and hit it. – Thomas Watson
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. – P. J. O’Rourke
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt
There are two ways to slide easily through life—to believe everything, or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. – Alfred Korzybski
If I don’t have wisdom, I can only teach you ignorance. – Leo Buscaglia
The cure for boredom is curiosity—there is no cure for curiosity. – Dorothy Parker
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it. – Voltaire
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. – German proverb
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time try to fail better. – Samuel Beckett
There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves. – Margaret Thatcher
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. – Dolly Parton
Different is not necessarily better, but better is always different. – Hugh Landrum
“I know a way out of hell. Find a child, a child whose mother and father have been killed, a little boy about this high, and raise him as your own. Only be sure he is a Muslim, and raise him as one. – Ben Kingsley as Gandhi to a Hindu murderer. – GANDHI –John Briley (Screenplay)
You don’t have to be a cow to know what milk is. – Ann Landers
Jounalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It’s absolutely unavoidable. – Marguerite Duras
The most destructive criticism is indifference. – E. W. Howe
“Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on dry land.” – Mr. Myogi (Pat Morita) to Julie (Hillary Swank – THE NEXT KARATE KID – Mark Lee (Screenplay)
EDUCATION - 6
“Woe to you who are versed in the Law because you took away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not go in, and you hinder those going in.” – Jesus Christ, speaking of those teachers who rejected him. – John 11:52 – Apostle John – The BIBLE
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to ponder and reflect. – Mark Twain
We have been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We are cleaning up the air, but polluting the soul. We have conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We’ve learn to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, but we communicate less and less. – George Carlin
The purpose for school is for children to learn, not to feel good about themselves. – Dr. Jean M. Twenge – GENERATION ME
I perceive how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scriptures were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue. – William Tyndale
‘They’ told us the churches are ‘old fashioned’ and they should modernize, liberalize, rationalize and compromise. And those that compromised most are shrinking the fastest. It appears that ‘they’ gave us some awfully bad advice. They did. – Paul Harvey
If you read a lot of books, you’re considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well-viewed. – Lily Tomlin
