Education Quotes
“May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.”
“I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.”
-- David Rockefeller
“Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.”
-- Tallulah Bankhead
“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.”
-- Jean Piaget
“I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.”
-- Rutherford B. Hayes
“Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.”
-- Alice Miller
“Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.”
-- Bobby Scott