"You look at this and see gun parts. I look at it and see a craft project." --Head cheerleader to bank robbing gang.

-- movie Sugar and Spice, Unknown , Unknown

...one of the reasons I like classes and structured learning is that they encourage --and contribute to--the belief that life is orderly, that things happen when they are supposed to happen, that actions have predictable results and that events are controllable.

-- Roby James, Commencement, p. 189, Unknown

...under no circumstances shall any learning take place in the State of New Jersey.

-- New Jersey Department of Education, a cease and desist letter to Nova Southeastern University's distance ed efforts, 1974

A boy is better unborn than untaught.

-- Gascoigne, Unknown , Unknown

A child miseducated is a child lost.

-- John Kennedy, Unknown , Unknown

A college education seldom hurts a man if he's willing to learn a little something after he graduates.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A college student is someone who's learned to write home for money in three or four languages.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

-- Fred Allen., Unknown , Unknown

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , born November 4, 1879

A dirty book is rarely dusty.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

-- George Bernard Shaw, Unknown , 1856-1950

A good education is important. It enables you to pick out the most important things to worry about.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A good education is like a savings account. The more you put into it, the richer you are.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.

-- Charles Schulz, Peanuts, Unknown , Unknown

A good education should leave much to be desired.

-- Alan Gregg, Unknown , born December 4, 1887

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

-- Frederick Douglass, Unknown , Unknown

A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than an educated family.

-- Harry S. Truman, Unknown , Unknown

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.

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

-- Alexander Pope, Unknown , Unknown

A mind is a terrible thing to ugg.. I forgot.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

-- Anatole France, Unknown , Unknown

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

-- Grace Murray Hopper, Unknown , Unknown

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

-- Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-- and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

-- Clark Kerr, Unknown , born 1911

A university floats on paper and rewards the creation of more words on paper.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

A university, if it is any good, is open-ended: the person of the most humble beginnings may rise to the highest office. To be sure, he is most likely to do so if he takes on something of the coloration of the university….He must judge delicately how much of that coloration is natural to him, or he will be thought a parvenu, a climber, merely ambitious rather than incidentally ambitious.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

A zealous school reformer, wearied by jousting with the status quo, heard about a spiritualist who was able to make contact with the dear departed. So one evening, he went to one of her seances. And when his turn came, he asked her to make contact with John Dewey. After struggling for a while, she reached America's greatest philosopher. The reformer was thrilled. "Professor Dewey," he said, "We have labored for 15 years to improve America's schools without success. Please tell me how we can create the kinds of schools our children need and deserve?" Dewey hesitated a moment and replied: "Well, there is the natural way and the miraculous way. Which do you want?" The reformer, his idealism faltering, asked for the natural way. "The natural way," Dewey said, "Would be for God to send down bands of angels to visit every single public school and transform them into places of true learning." "Good heavens," gasped the reformer. "What then is the miraculous way?" "Ah," said Dewey, "The miraculous way would be for the people to do it themselves."

-- Unknown, http://www.uvm.edu/~dewey/monographs/glomono.html, Unknown

About eighty-five institutions in the Western world established by 1500 still exist in recognizable forms, with similar functions and with unbroken histories, including the Catholic church, the Parliaments of the Isle of Man, of Iceland, and of Great Britain, several Swiss cantons, and seventy universities. ...These seventy universities...are still in the same locations with some of the same buildings, with professors and students doing much the same things, and with governance carried on in much the same ways.

-- Clark Kerr, Postscript 1982, Change, 14(7), 23-31., 1982

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"-- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.

-- Richard Rorty, Chronicle of Higher Education, pg A48, Feb. 9, 1996

Academic staff rather enjoy coming to a conclusion, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.

-- Noel Gilroy Annan, Unknown , born December 25, 1916

Academic vows: poverty, bibliography, and jargon

-- Leo Rosten, Unknown , Unknown

Academy, n. (from academe). A modern school where football is taught.

-- Ambrose Bierce, Unknown , Unknown

All generalizations are false.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

All most young people want out of school is themselves.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

All through his education, the only time he wasn't late for school was when he was absent.

-- Gene Perret, Unknown , Unknown

All too often we are stuffing the heads of the young with the products of earlier innovations rather than teaching them to be innovative. We treat their minds as storehouses to be filled rather than as instruments to be used.

-- Robert Finch, Secretary of HEW, Unknown , 1970

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

America's future walks through the doors of our schools each day.

-- Mary Jean Le Tendre, Unknown , Unknown

American college students are like American colleges--each has half-dulled faculties.

-- James Thurber, Unknown , Unknown

An anxious mother was questioning [Princeton University president] Woodrow Wilson closely about what Princeton could do for her son. "Madam," the exasperated Wilson replied, "we guarantee satisfaction or you will get your son back."

-- James C. Humes, Unknown , Unknown

An educated person is one who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living and doesn't teach them how to live.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.

-- Benjamin Stolberg, Unknown , Unknown

An institution of higher education is what it rewards its people for being.

-- James A. Joseph, former Ambassador, speech at American Democracy Project Meeting "Higher Education and the Public Good", June 15, 2006

And if education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

-- Maria Montessori, Unknown , Unknown

And the test of great teaching is not merely the dissection of truth. It can also be the ability and the willingness to package that truth and deliver it to the people who need it most.

-- James C. Howell, Servants, Misfits, and Martyrs: Saints and Their Stories. Nashville, TN: Upper Room Books. p. 93, 1999

Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 33, 1995

Aristotle noted that it was a mark of understanding to know what sorts of things can be proven and made precise, and what sorts, on the other hand, require our tolerance of vagueness and probable conclusions.

-- John Churchill, From the Secretary: Inspiring Conversations in The Key Reporter. Vol 67, Number 4. P. 2., Summer 2002

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

-- Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa, 1928

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

-- Will Durant, Unknown , Unknown

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

-- Leon Botstein, Unknown , born December 14, 1946

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems-- the answer for all the problems of the world--comes to a single word. That word is "education."

-- Lyndon B. Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

-- Justice Antonin Scalia, Unknown , Unknown

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, -- that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

-- John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Unknown

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , 1879-1955

Before we can go on making workers, we must first make people.

-- Martin Haberman, Unknown , Unknown

Being oppressed means the absence of choices.

-- Bell Hooks, Feminist Theory, 1984

Better build schoolrooms for "the boy" Than cells and gibbets for "the man."

-- Eliza Cook, Unknown , 1818-1889

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

-- Peter Ustinov, Unknown , born 1921

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

-- George Bernard Shaw, Unknown , 1856-1950

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.

-- Charles Peters, Unknown , Unknown

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

-- Saki (H. H. Munro), Unknown , born December 18, 1870

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

-- Henry Brook Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, Unknown

Conference: A place where conversation is substituted for the dreariness of labor and the loneliness of thought.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

-- William Allen White, Unknown , Unknown

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

-- Anna Freud, Unknown , Unknown

Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 24l, 1995

Cutbacks, on top of cutbacks already made, were in the air, though no one had yet used the word, which was a technical term and a magical charm to be used only at the time when items in the budget were actually being crossed off. It was a technical term in that you could refer to "shifting resources" and "reallocating funds" right up to the moment you told some guy that his research assistant was being fired and his new lab equipment was not being ordered, and it was a magical charm because it instantly transformed the past into a special, golden epoch, the grand place that all things had been cut back from.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 20-21., 1995

Deans can count but they can't read.

-- Old Saying, Unknown , Unknown

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

-- G. K. Chesterton, Unknown , born May 29, 1874

Departmental conflicts, which were many, it turned out, were spoken of only by allusion and only in low voices.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 57, 1995

Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.

-- Moses Ibn Ezra, Unknown , Unknown

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

-- Horace, Carmina. IV. 4. 33., Unknown

Don't let school get in the way of your education.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Don't limit a child to your own learning for they were born in another time.

-- Olde rabbinical saying, Unknown , Unknown

Dr. Lionel Gift was well aware that he could teach this class, and even entertain and please the customers, with no thought whatsoever. What he was saying to them now was like a television program on another channel that he could switch to whenever he wanted, just to see that it was still on, just to see that he, the talking head, was still adhering to the script. Somewhat more often, he checked the audience. Heads down, pencils moving, the occasional nod, all the way back to the last rows. It touched him, it really did, the imparting of knowledge, the initiation of a whole new group of customers into the domain of truth.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 143, 1995

Educated people do not simply believe; they believe what they can explain and cogently defend.

-- S.M. Cahn, Unknown , Unknown

Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today's world--an assigned parking space.

-- Gene Perrett, Unknown , Unknown

Education can't make us all leaders-- but it can teach us which leader to follow.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Education cannot be conferred. Whether in school or out, learning is a do-it-yourself proposition.

-- Wheeler McMillen, Unknown , Unknown

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

-- Robert Frost, Unknown , born 1874

Education has for its object the formation of character.

-- Herbert Spencer, Unknown , Unknown

Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.

-- E. C. McKenzie, Unknown , Unknown

Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave.

-- Ropo Oguntimehin, Unknown , Unknown

Education is a method by which one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

-- Laurence J. Peter, Unknown , born September 16, 1919

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

-- Norman Douglas, Unknown , Unknown

Education is a treasure.

-- Petronius, Satyricon, Unknown

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name; you'd have to pay cash.

-- Rita Mae Brown, Unknown , Unknown

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

-- John Dewey, Unknown , Unknown

Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. Its proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible.

-- Wendell Berry, "Thoughts In The Presence of Fear " http://www.orionsociety.org/pages/oo/sidebars/America/Berry.html, 2001

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellect, teach them to think straight, if possible.

-- Robert M. Hutchins, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- William.Butler Yeats, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Malcolm X, Unknown , Unknown

Education is painful and not gained with playing games or being average.

-- Marva Collins, Unknown , Unknown

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

-- G. K. Chesterton, Unknown , Unknown

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence.

-- Robert Frost, Unknown , Unknown

Education is the apprenticeship of life.

-- Robert Willmott, Unknown , Unknown

Education is the art of making man ethical.

-- Georg Hegel, Unknown , 1821

Education is the art of the utilization of knowledge. This an art very difficult to impart…We must beware of what I will call 'inert ideas' that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized or tested or thrown into fresh combinations.

-- Alfred North Whitehead, Aims of Education and Other Essays, NY: MacMillan, 1924

Education is the best provision for old age.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

-- George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

-- G. K. Chesterton, Unknown , Unknown

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token to save it from that ruin, which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. An education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their choice of undertaking something new, something unforseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.

-- Hannah Arendt, Unknown , 1906-1975

Education is the primary tool of emancipation and liberation for African-Americans in our fight for true equality in this country.

-- Earl G. Graves, Unknown , Unknown

Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.

-- Irwin Edman, Unknown , 1896-1954

Education is understanding relationships.

-- George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

-- Marquis of Halifax, Unknown , Unknown

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

-- B.F. Skinner, Unknown , Unknown

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

-- Pete Seeger, Unknown , born 1919

Education is wonderful--it helps you worry about things all over the world.

-- Joey Adams, Unknown , Unknown

Education is…hanging around until you've caught on.

-- Robert Frost, Unknown , Unknown

Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so by the mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses.

-- John Stuart Mill, Unknown , Unknown

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

-- Lord Brougham, Unknown , Unknown

Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself.

-- Sybil Marshall, Unknown , Unknown

Education not as sudden as a massacre, but more deadly in the long run.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

-- Barbara Jordan, 1991, Unknown

Education should be a talent development effort rather than a competition.

-- Lee Chronbach as quoted by Mike Theall, Unknown , Unknown

Education should be as gradual as the moonrise, perceptible not in progress but in result.

-- George John Whyte-Melville, Riding Recollections, Unknown

Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.

-- James Mason Wood, Unknown , Unknown

Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there is no known cure for a big head.

-- J. Graham, Unknown , Unknown

Education worthy of the name is essentially education of character.

-- Martin Buber, Unknown , 1939

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

-- Malcolm S. Forbes, Unknown , Unknown

Education, to be successful, must not only inform but inspire.

-- T. Sharper Knowlson, Unknown , Unknown

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

-- G.M. Trevelyan, Unknown , Unknown

Education: A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

-- George Bernard Shaw, Unknown , Unknown

Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Education: That which reveals to the wise, conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

Education: The path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

-- W.E.B. DuBois, Unknown , Unknown

Elites feel able to rise above their own rules, since they create them: no one can attend faculty meetings for long without discovering that rules are normative, not binding.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and value certain perspectives and accomplishments and to subordinate others. Every technology has a philosophy, which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards.

-- Neil Postman, The End of Education, Unknown

Even babies like to grab for things just beyond their reach.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.

-- Gloria Steinem, Unknown , 1934

Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

-- John Mendoza, Unknown , Unknown

Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

-- Friedrich Schlegel, Unknown , 1798

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

-- Gertrude Stein, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it’s in Hamburger Technology.

-- Clive James, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone[Everybody] is ignorant only on different subjects.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , Unknown

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

-- Flannery O'Connor, Unknown , Unknown

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

-- Marva Collins, Unknown , Unknown

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

-- Heinrich Heine, Unknown , born December 13, 1797

Faculty are the folks at the front of the room. Students are the folks in front of the folks at the front of the room. Administrative Staff are the folks behind the folks in front of the folks at the front of the room.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

First I was dying to finish high school and start college. And then I was dying to finish college and start working. And then I was dying to marry and have children. And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough so I could return to work. And then I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying…And suddenly realize I forgot to live.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Football combines the two worst features of American life: violence and committee meetings.

-- George Will, Unknown , Unknown

For colored people to acquire learning in this country makes tyrants quake and tremble on their sandy foundation.

-- David Walker, Unknown , Unknown

For every complex question there is a simple answer -- and it's wrong.

-- H.L. Mencken, Unknown , Unknown

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill.

-- Richard Clapton, Unknown , Unknown

For every student with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.

-- Milton Berle, Unknown , Unknown

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

-- Ingrid Bengis, Unknown , Unknown

For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise boring article, braving the students who, fresh as each class may be, will still ask the same questions year after year. Psychological survival is not achieved without effort, and the environment must be managed, knocked about with one's elbows until it takes a shape comfortable to one's sense of self. This is not selfishness, for in reshaping the environment the academic is also reinvigorating the educational process.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

-- Robert Maynard Hutchins, Unknown , Unknown

From the day I was born, I began to learn my lessons. I learned it is possible to be a Christian and a white southerner simultaneously; to be a gentlewoman and an arrogant callous creature in the same moment; to pray at night and ride a Jim Crow car the next morning and to feel comfortable doing both. I learned to believe in freedom, to glow when the word democracy was used, and to practice slavery from morning to night.

-- Lillian Smith, Unknown , 1897-1966

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

-- Benjamin Franklin, Unknown , Unknown

Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there; make it happen.

-- Lee Iacocca, Unknown , Unknown

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

-- William Saroyan, Unknown , Unknown

Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater depth of understanding.

-- Peter Block, Unknown , Unknown

Half the misery in the world is caused by ignorance. The other half is caused by knowledge.

-- Bonar Thompson, Unknown , born 1888

Harvard University is conceded to be one of the nation's greatest storehouses of knowledge, and its onetime president, the late Charles W. Eliot, had a ready explanation. "We're adding more knowledge every semester," he declared. "The freshman [sic] bring us so much of it--and the seniors take away so little!"

-- Bennett Cerf, Unknown , Unknown

He sought advice readily, always a good quality in an administrator, and did his own Xeroxing.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 62, 1995

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator.

-- Francis Bacon, Unknown , Unknown

He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.

-- Hypatia, in Elbert Hubbard, (1908) Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers, c. 370-415

He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages, will be known far and wide as a smart ass.

-- Howard Kandel, Unknown , Unknown

Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

-- Winston Churchill, Unknown , born November 30, 1874

Higher education….one student at a time!

-- Bowling Green Community College, Bowling Green, KY, Unknown , Unknown

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!

-- William Cowper, Unknown , born November 26, 1731

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

-- Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See, Unknown

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

-- H.G. Wells, Unknown , 1920

I always intended to do things, but life always got in the way of my intentions, and I was like a passenger riding in a getaway car, randomly throwing assignments out the window like a drive-by criminal.

-- Jessica McMeans, undergraduate describing her term, April 2005

I always intended to do things, but life always got in the way of my intentions, and I was like a passengr riding in a getaway car, randomly throwing assignments out the window like a drive-by criminal.

-- Jessica McMeans, undergraduate, personal review of her coursework, April, 2005

I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our education system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.

-- Thomas Edison, Unknown , 1922

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.

-- John Cage, Unknown , Unknown

I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein that runs through the body of it.

-- Joseph Addison, The Spectator, Unknown

I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

-- John Dewey, Unknown , Unknown

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people."

-- Barbara Jordan, Unknown , Unknown

I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

-- Whitfield Diffie., Unknown , Unknown

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

-- Harold Macmillan, Unknown , Unknown

I know a lot of people think I’m dumb. Well, at least I ain’t no educated fool.

-- Leon Spinks, LA Times, 19 78, June 28

I look upon schools as having a function similar to that of hospitals. And I am no more receptive to people telling me, you know, that schools can't do anything because children come there with deficiencies than I can accept as being anything other than nonsense anyone who would say to you that hospitals can't do anything because people who go there are sick.

-- Kenneth Clark, psychologist whose research helped win Brown v Board of Education, Unknown , Unknown

I mistrust all systemisers and I avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1895

I must study politics and war that my sons will have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

-- John Adams, Unknown , Unknown

I never let my schooling interfere with my education.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.

-- Abigail Adams, Unknown , 1744-1818

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

-- Wilson Mizner, Unknown , 1876-1933

I should…prefer the broad daylight of a respectable school to the solitude and obscurity of a private education. For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

-- Quintilian, Unknown , ca 35 AD-ca 100

I still remember my college days--all four of them.

-- Henny Youngman, Unknown , Unknown

I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life.

-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Unknown , 1917-1963

I think the world is run by C students.

-- Al McGuire, Unknown , Unknown

I think what surprised me most about the 19th century writers was their attitude toward women. They assumed with a fine complacency that men were entitled to as much education as they could get but that even a little of it was apt to be dangerous for a woman.

-- Edward Weeks, Unknown , 1957

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have is that I didn't study my Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

-- Dan Quayle, Unknown , Unknown

I wonder whether if I had had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.

-- Alice James, The Diary of Alice James, Unknown

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, “This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!”

-- Lewis Mumford, To National Book Awards Committee, 'My Works and Days' Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979

I'm not afraid of getting my nose and ears cut off, I want to keep studying.

-- Nooria, 12 year old Afghan girl, in response to violence & threats from the Taliban, Newsweek, p. 34, June 26, 2006

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

-- John Galsworthy, Unknown , born August 14, 1867

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

-- L. Ron Hubbard, Unknown , Unknown

Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.

-- J. Harlen Bretz., Unknown , Unknown

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.

-- Donald D. Quinn, Unknown , Unknown

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

If by being overstudious we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

-- Montaigne, Essays, Unknown

If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a Socrates who is never content with the initial superficial response, but is always probing for finer distinctions, clearer examples, a more profound form of knowing. Our concept of knowledge has changed since classical times, but Socrates has provided us with a timeless educational goal - ever deeper understanding.

-- Howard Gardner, "The Academic Community Must Not Shun the Debate Over How to Set National Educational Goals" in The Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 Nov. 1989

If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.

-- William Booth, Unknown , born 1829

If nobody dropped out at the eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates?

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

If the cost of education continues to rise, education will become as expensive as ignorance.

-- Phi Delta Kappan, Unknown , Unknown

If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would confer.

-- Sarah M. Grimke, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman, 1838

If there is anything education does not lack today, it is critics.

-- Nathan M. Pusey, Unknown , Unknown

If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.

-- FMEA, Stamatis, Unknown , Unknown

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong.

-- Mo Udall, Unknown , Unknown

If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

-- Toni Morrison, Unknown , Unknown

If you complain of neglect of education in sons, what shall I say with regard to daughters, who every day experience the want of it?…If we mean to have heroes, statesmen, and philosophers, we should have learned women.

-- Abigail Adams, letter in Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife, Abigail Adams, During the Revolution (1875), August 14, 1776

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway…The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway….give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.

-- Mother Teresa, Meditations from a Simple Path, Unknown

If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.

-- Ruby Manikan, Unknown , Unknown

If you feel that you have both feet planted on the ground then the university has failed you.

-- Robert F. Goheen, Unknown , born August 15, 1919

If you keep missing, get closer to the basket.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If you plan for a year, plant a seed. If for ten years, plant a tree. If for a hundred years, teach the people. When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest. When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests.

-- Kuan Chung, Unknown , Unknown

If you think education is expensive--try ignorance.

-- Derek Bok, Unknown , Unknown

If you want to become the greatest in your field, no matter what it may be, equip yourself to render greater service than anyone else.

-- Clinton Davidson, Unknown , Unknown

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Unknown , Unknown

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

-- Woodrow Wilson, Unknown , Unknown

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.

-- Christopher Andreae, Unknown , born December 24, 1919

Ignorance never settles a question.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

-- Oscar Wilde, Unknown , Unknown

Imagination is more powerful even than knowledge.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity. But improve man, you gain a thousandfold.

-- Gene L. Coon and Carey Wilbur, Unknown , Unknown

In any academic community there are scholars of whom it is said that they have twenty fresh ideas a day, ten of them quite mad, five naïve or stupid, three without point, and two exciting and potentially of great value. Most bureaucracies, seeking to homogenize their members, would not tolerate so low-level a return; any sound university will bear with eighteen expressions of madness, stupidity, and nonproductivity in exchange for two of great value.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

-- Shunru Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Weatherhill Pub., April 1, 1973

In the first place God made idiots; this was for practice; then he made school boards.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

In the Industrial Age, we went to school. In the Communication Age, schools will come to us.

-- from the masthead of The Online Chronicle of Distance Education Communication, Unknown , Unknown

In the opening years of the new century, our colleges and universities have reached a watershed between the failing end of a once golden era and an economic, structural, and technological transformation lying just over the campus horizon. As a consequence, they must rethink what they do, for whom they do it, and how they can do it more effectively, more efficiently, and with greater concern for the welfare of what will be a larger and demographically different body of undergraduates.

-- Mel Elfin, "Longtime Observer Gives Low Grade to Trends in U.S. Higher Education" in The Key Reporter, Vol 68, No. 2, p. 11, Winter 2003

Indeed, one of the ultimate advantages of education is simply coming to an end of it.

-- B.F. Skinner, Unknown , Unknown

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

-- Ronald Reagan, Unknown , Unknown

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people’s values.

-- Gerald Brenan, Unknown , Unknown

Isn't education a process in which we are all confronted with positions that differ from our own and that require us to re-think what we think we know?

-- John Wise, Professional and Organizational Development listserv, Re: "Faith-Based Students" and...our practices, 13 Jan 2006

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

-- William Shakespeare, The Merchance of Venice, act 1, sc. 2, 1. [59], 1596-8

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Unknown , Unknown

It is easier to move a cemetery than to effect a change in curriculum.

-- Woodrow Wilson, Unknown , Unknown

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

-- Jacob Bronowski, Unknown , Unknown

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape -- not from our own time, for we are bound by that -- but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our own time.

-- T. S. Eliot, Unknown , 1888-1965

It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn how to spot a stereotype, isolate a social cliche, and distinguish facts from propaganda, analysis from banter and important news from coverage.

-- Ernest Boyer, Turning Points: Preparing Youth for the 21st Century, 1989

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

-- Caron deBeaumarchais, Unknown , Unknown

It is not the IQ but the I Will that is most important in education.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

It is not who you attend school with, but who controls the school you attend.

-- Nikki Giovanni, Unknown , 1943-

It is our prayer that our students go out into the world with the strength, not only to survive, but to remain beautiful human beings.

-- Cole Glen, Unknown , Unknown

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , 384-322 B.C.

It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own mind pulsates with the great ebbs and flows of popular delusion and emotion, the more admirably he performs his function. He may be an ass, but that is surely no demerit in a man paid to make asses of his customers.

-- H.L. Mencken, Unknown , Unknown

It is tiresome to hear education discussed, tiresome to educate, and tiresome to be educated.

-- William Lamb, Unknown , Unknown

It's easier to change the course of history than a history course.

-- Zell Miller, Senator, Unknown , Unknown

It's only in our minds that we are separate from the rest of the world.

-- Gay Luce, Unknown , Unknown

It's only November, but my brain is full.

-- Unknown undergraduate cited by Anne Matthews, Bright College Years, 1997

It’s not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong, not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich, not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned, and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

-- Francis Bacon, Sr., Unknown , Unknown

Ivar understood his position perfectly, and more than that, he accepted it as his office. The university had become a broad, bare field in the center of which he stood alone, while everyone else covered their heads and fled. His job was to stand there, smiling, pretending that everything was fine, while sniper fire from the press, the regents, the legislature, the governor's office, the faculty senate, and the parents of students ricocheted all around him. He had to keep smiling and use certain words, "concerned," "situation," "of course," over and over again. Other, truer words and phrases ran through his head. "Fall guy" was one.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 334-5., Unknown

Just say know.

-- Mary Mathrey, RN, Unknown , Unknown

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

-- Dave Barry, Unknown , Unknown

Know thyself.

-- Thales, Unknown , Unknown

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Unknown , Unknown

Knowledge is never a substitute for experience.

-- Greg Henry Quinn, 365 Meditations for Teachers, May 31, Unknown

Knowledge is power--especially if you know about the right people.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Knowledge is power.

-- Hobbs or Sir Francis Bacon, Unknown , Unknown

Laurence Houseman once said, "A saint is one who makes goodness attractive." Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

-- John Trimble, Unknown , Unknown

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful-- there are far too many children.

-- Marguerite Yourcenar., Unknown , Unknown

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

-- Samuel Johnson, Unknown , 1799

Let schoolmasters puzzle the brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good Liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

-- Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, Unknown

Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

-- Paul Samuelson, author of seminal Economics text and winner of Nobel Prize in economics., 20th century

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , 1835-1910

Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

-- James Monroe, First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1817

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

-- Pearl S. Buck, 1892-1973, Of Men and Women, 1941

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people

-- John Adams, Unknown , Unknown

Librarians are the secret masters of the universe. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

-- Spider Robinson, Unknown , Unknown

Life is a journey, not a destination.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

-- B.F. Skinner, Unknown , Unknown

Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.

-- John Kenneth Galbraith, Unknown , Unknown

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.

-- Jane Austen, 1775-1817, Persuasion, 1818

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

-- Winston Churchill, Unknown , Unknown

Miss Swanson, I don't understand the fourth problem. Of course, I don't really understand the other three problems, either...Actually, I don't understand math at all. Let's face it...I don't even understand school.

-- Peppermint Patty (Charles Schultz), Peanuts cartoon, Unknown

More people than ever before are graduated but not educated.

-- Robert Gunderson, Unknown , Unknown

Much that passes for education…is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

-- David P. Gardner, Unknown , Unknown

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

-- Robert Maynard Hutchins, Unknown , Unknown

My worst moments have been in the classroom; I persevere because my best moments have been there, too.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled, the humiliating question arises: why then are you not taking part in them?

-- H.G. Wells, Unknown , Unknown

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

-- James A. Garfield, Unknown , Unknown

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

-- J. Robert Oppenheimer, Unknown , 1967

No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side.

-- Jascha Heifetz., Unknown , Unknown

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story, 1937

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

-- Samuel Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

None of the secrets of success will work unless you do.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

-- Edward Shepherd Mead, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is quite common. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and Determination alone are the all-powerful elements.

-- Adapted by ? From a quote by Calvin Coolidge, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

-- G. C. Lichtenberg, Unknown , Unknown

Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?

-- Milton Berle, Unknown , Unknown

o truly enjoy... [a university], the individual--student or faculty--must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into a muted adversarial relationship…both in order to move the institution just that little bit away from what is was to what it could become, and also to assure at least the sense if not the reality of independence.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

-- Artur Rubinstein, Unknown , Unknown

On Artificial Intelligence: The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

-- B.F. Skinner, Unknown , Unknown

Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor, I have more education than most white people."

-- Joycelyn Elders, New York Times Magazine, January 30, 1994

Once you decide you have nothing else to learn, you have nothing else to teach.

-- Terry Olson, Focus on Faculty, Vol 15(2), Brigham Young University Faculty Center, 2005

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

-- Blaise Pascal, Unknown , Unknown

One's work may be finished some day, but one's education never.

-- Alexandre Dumas, pere, Unknown , Unknown

Only the educated are free.

-- Epictetus, Discourses, Unknown

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been 80 years at it, and have not reached my goal.

-- Johann von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

Original ideas allow you to meet talented people.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

-- Maya Angelou, Unknown , Unknown

Our problems are mostly behind us-- what we have to do now is fight the solutions.

-- Allen P. Stults, Unknown , born June 13, 1913

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

-- Bella Abzug, Unknown , 1920

Outside the classroom the student must live in the world; inside the classroom the student can own the world.

-- Greg Henry Quinn, 365 Meditations for Teachers, March 1., 1995

Over the years, Mrs. Loraine Walker's vision of the campus had changed. The collection of stone buildings had evolved, in her mind, into a web of offices, where secretaries sat under bright lights and near them, much more dimly, sat administrators whose grasp on things was tenuous at best. ....The only people who talked on the phone anymore were the administrators, whose whole lives, like those of chimps, were made up of nit-picking, stroking, and jockeying for dominance. ...The stony walls and concrete paths, the closed windows and doors, the trees and shrubs, all the elements of the campus that seemed to separate people, had become permeable membranes undetectable in the wafting currents of information.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 137, 1995

Paperwork is the invention of the devil.

-- Alexis A. Gilliland, Unknown , Unknown

People populate the world. Teachers civilize it.

-- Greg Henry Quinn, 365 Meditations for Teachers, December 1, Unknown

People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , born November 4, 1879

People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.

-- Mary Pettibone Poole, Unknown , Unknown

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader--occasionally in the right direction.

-- Alexander Chase, Unknown , Unknown

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

-- Walter Bagehot, Unknown , Unknown

Philosophical habits of mind do not come quicker through fiber optics. Clear thinking is not aided by better dot resolution. Understanding ourselves and feeling for others does not come with a software upgrade.

-- Linda Ray Pratt, Unknown , Unknown

Politics ain't worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking place.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , born November 4, 1879

Prejudices, it is well known, are 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, Jane Eyre, 1847

Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated,while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media distortions, or entirely ignored, denied basic civil rights while our demands are ridiculed and derided. But in the midst of all this only one thing has changed for certain. We have changed. We will never go back into the closet.

-- Sarah Schulman, Unknown , 1958-

Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year.

-- Wilfred Peterson, Unknown , Unknown

Repetition is the mother of learning.

-- Kennet Oberly, Smithsonian, p. 60, 1995, May

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

-- William O. Douglas, Unknown , Unknown

Rocket science is child's play compared to understanding child's play.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Rubric derives from the Latin word for "red." In the Roman Church the books for religious ceremonies are printed with some lines black and some red. The black print indicates words to be spoken (prayers, etc.) and the red lines tell the celebrant "what to do" and these lines are not to be read. A rubric, in short, is a protocol for conducting a religious ceremony.

-- Bob Leamnson, POD@listserv.nd.edu, 2001, Tuesday, October 16

Rules and models destroy genius and art

-- William Hazlitt, "On Taste", 1778-1830

Said the Wizard of Oz to the scarecrow, "I can't give you brains but I can give you a diploma."

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

School is a building that has four walls--with tomorrow inside.

-- Lon Watters, Unknown , Unknown

Schools may be the starkest example in modern society of an entire institution modeled after the assembly line. This has dramatically increased educational capability in our time, but it has also created many of the most intractable problems with which students, teachers, and parents struggle to this day. If we want to change schools, it is unlikely to happen until we understand more deeply the core assumptions on which the industrial-age school is based.

-- Peter Senge, Unknown , Unknown

She had actually transferred funds out of the athletic budget into the library budget from time to time, possibly her most dangerous covert action.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 140., 1995

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

-- George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown

Sittin' in the classroom, Thinkin' it's a drag, Listenin' to the teacher Just ain't my bag.

-- Brownsville Station, song "Smokin' in the Boys' Room", Unknown

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

-- Will Durant, Unknown , Unknown

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs.

-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "The World's Need," Custer, 1896

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.

-- W.E.B. Du Bois, Unknown , 1898

Some men are graduated from college cum laude, some are graduated summa cum laude, and some are graduated mirabile dictu.

-- William Howard Taft. Mirabile dictu amazing to relate., Unknown , born September 15, 1857

Some professors feel the reason the modern student doesn't burn the midnight oil as he used to is that he doesn't get in soon enough.

-- Mildred Meiers and Jack Knaff, Unknown , Unknown

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

-- Lord Byron, Unknown , Unknown

Sparse surroundings create room for the mind.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Speed, quality, price. Pick any two.

-- James M. Wallace, Unknown , Unknown

Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

-- John Ortberg, The Life You've Always Wanted, P. 47, 1997

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it well and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

-- Thomas Jefferson, Unknown , Unknown

Students learn what they care about, from people they care about and who, they know, care about them.

-- Stanford Ericksen, Unknown , Unknown

Students learn... 10% of what they read 20% of what they hear 30% of what they see 50% of what they see and hear 70% of what they say or discuss with others 80% of what they do or experience personally 90% of what they say and do 95% of what they teach someone else

-- Source unknown, NOT William Glasser. NOT based on data., Original: Treichler, D. G. (1967). Are you missing the boat in training aids? Film and Audio-Visual Communication, 1, 14-16, 28-30, 48., See also http://www.willatworklearning.com/2006/0

Systems die; instincts remain.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

Take away black studies, women's studies, ethnic studies, Jewish studies, labor history, Chicano studies, Native American studies: what is left is what as passed for "history" with no qualifying adjective, the story of those whose belonging we never disputed.

-- Susanna Sturgis, Unknown , Unknown

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

-- Mary Shelley, in Matthew Arnold (1888) Essays in Criticism Second Series, 1797-1851

Teachers are the architectrual designers of nations. People must see that education is not an expense, but an investment.

-- Donna Oliver, 1987 United States Teacher of the Year, Unknown , Unknown

Teachers assess to test; educators assess to assist learning.

-- Dave Carter, handout: Assessment - Why We Do It How We Do..., June 2002

Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn't have jobs, otherwise. But it's phony, you know.

-- Denise Levertov, The Craft of Poetry, Unknown

Teachers teach as they have been taught

-- source uncertain, Unknown , Unknown

Teaching is the achievement of shared meaning.

-- D. B. Gowin, Educating ( Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press), p. 62, 1981

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

Teaching well is, after all, a process without end.

-- Tom Bengston, Augustana College, USA Today, Nov. 10, 2008

The "F" word in education is flexibility.

-- T. Daniel, Unknown , Unknown

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.

-- Russell Green, Unknown , born 1893

The aim of education is to discover truth.

-- Socrates, Unknown , Unknown

The average kindergartner has seen more than 5,000 hours of TV--more time than it takes to earn a bachelor's degree.

-- Shook, M. & Shook, R., The Book of Odds, 1991

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

-- Florence King, The Portable Curmudgeon Redux., Unknown

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

-- John Maynard Keynes, Unknown , Unknown

The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.

-- Stephen Brookfield, Unknown , Unknown

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

-- J. R. Lowell, Unknown , Unknown

The challenge of education is to prepare students for their future --not our past!

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The changes in ...American life....in the last generation....have outstripped the educational principles. philosophy, and practices of the college.

-- John Dewey, Unknown , Unknown

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

-- G. K. Chesterton, Unknown , Unknown

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

-- Henry Adams, Unknown , Unknown

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

-- Robert M. Hutchins, Unknown , Unknown

The commonwealth requires the education of the people as the safeguard of order and liberty.

-- Boston Public Library, Boylston Street entrance inscription, Unknown , Unknown

The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living.

-- Charles F. Kettering, Unknown , born August 29, 1876

The difference between knowing and teaching is communication.

-- Hurt, Scott, and McCroskey, Unknown , 1978

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

-- Plato, Unknown , Unknown

The education of females has been exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty…though well to decorate the blossom, it is far better to prepare for the harvest.

-- Emma Hart Willard, in Anna C. Brackett (1892), The Technique of Rest, 1787-1870

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

-- Ellen Key, The Morality of Woman and Other Essays, 'The Conventional Woman', 1911

The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away.

-- Leo Buscaglia, Unknown , Unknown

The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress. We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers.

-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1860-1935, in Ida Husted Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, 1923

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

-- Gloria Steinem, Unknown , 1934

The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us as a nation. If we were to have another contest in the near future, of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason's or Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.

-- Ulysses S. Grant, Unknown , Unknown

The giving of love is an education in itself.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?" The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?" The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?" The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

The great art of educating consists of knowing how to occupy every moment of life in well-directed and useful activity of the youthful powers, in order that, so far as possible, nothing evil may find room to develop itself.

-- Emmanuel Von Fellenberg, Unknown , Unknown

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Unknown , Unknown

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

-- Winston Churchill, Sir, Unknown , 1874-1965

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

-- D. Boorstin, Unknown , Unknown

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Unknown , Unknown

The heart is as important as the head in learning

-- K. Patricia Cross, Motivation: Er...Will That Be on the Test?, The Cross Papers, Number 5,, 2001, February

The highest result of education is tolerance.

-- Helen Keller, Unknown , Unknown

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

-- Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind. Preface., 1987

The library is a valuable institution, satisfying our thirst for knowledge and some peace and quiet.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

The life of an academic is one of endless compromise on how to spend one's time.

-- Jonathan Haughton, "The Northeast Voice", p. 11, March 21, 1996

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

-- Bishop W. C. Mager, Unknown , Unknown

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

-- Thomas Jefferson, Unknown , Unknown

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

-- Carter G. Woodson, 1933, Unknown

The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament...The university rests on the public will and on public appreciation.

-- Nicholas Murray Butler, president, Columbia University, Unknown , 1908, 2 November

The more disk space you produce, the more files will be created to fill it - it's like feeding pigeons.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never will and never can be.

-- Thomas Jefferson, Unknown , Unknown

The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is an excuse for failure, violent behavior, or indulgence in drugs.

-- Roland Merullo, The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 14, 2002

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

-- Robert Maynard Hutchins, Unknown , Unknown

The only completely consistent people are dead.

-- Aldous Huxley, Unknown , Unknown

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

-- John Locke, Unknown , 1693

The only protection against injustice in man is power--physical, financial, and scientific.

-- Marcus Garvey, Unknown , Unknown

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

-- Eugene McCarthy, Unknown , Unknown

The only thing worse than learning the truth is not learning the truth.

-- David Gerrold, Unknown , Unknown

The path you're on looks different when you turn around.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

The perfect civil servant is the man who has a valid objection to any possible solution.

-- A. H. Keates, Unknown , Unknown

The primary mission of the university is not to train but to educate, not to do research or transfer technology, not to prepare students for jobs but to make them more discerning people, capable of seeing through the political and commercial hucksterisms of their times, of establishing their own values and finding their own meaning in life, of constructing and expressing their own compelling narratives.

-- James Downey, Unknown , Unknown

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

-- Edith Sitwell, Unknown , Unknown

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

-- Carl Rogers, Unknown , Unknown

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

-- Seymour Papert, Unknown , Unknown

The school is the manufactory of humanity.

-- Comenius, Unknown , Unknown

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , born November 4, 1879

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

-- Barnaby C. Keeney, Unknown , born October 17, 1914

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

The self-taught man selfdom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into doing as he himself has done.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

The specialism and visible success of the sciences have impressed some minds to such a degree that they have virtually identified the possibilities of human knowledge with the possibilities of science.

-- W.E. Abraham, Unknown , Unknown

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

-- Doug Larson, Unknown , Unknown

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is a learner.

-- Elbert Hubbard, in his biographical sketch of Friedrich Froebel, Unknown

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

-- Samuel McChord Crothers, Unknown , born June 7, 1857

The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so.

-- Josh Billings, Unknown , Unknown

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

-- Bertrand Russell, Unknown , Unknown

The truly educated never graduate.

-- unknown, Unknown , Unknown

The ultimate classroom control is nature itself.

-- Glen Crumb, Unknown , Unknown

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

-- Herbert Spencer, Unknown , Unknown

The university exists only to find and to communicate the truth.

-- Robert Maynard Hutchins, Unknown , Unknown

The university [. . .] has become an umbrella organization under which a variety of activities go on, but one that has no center and no soul.

-- Jane Tompkins, A Life in School, p. 222, Unknown

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education.

-- Plutarch, On the Training of Children, Unknown

The white fathers told us, "I think, therefore, I am" and the black mother within each of us--the poet--whispers in our dreams, I feel, therefore I can be free.

-- Audre Lorde, Unknown , Unknown

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

-- Bertrand Russell, Unknown , 1872-1970

The world needs specialists and highly trained people with advanced degrees, no question about it. But the world also needs diversity and versatility. It needs people who know as much about our value system as they do about our solar system.

-- Roger B. Smith, Unknown , 1982

Theories and goals of education don't mean a whit if you don't consider your students to be human beings.

-- Lou Ann Walker, Unknown , 1952-

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

-- Agnes Repplier, Unknown , Unknown

There are many reasons for this, but perhaps the essence is captured best in the charming aphorism that education is a process of 'converting tangible resources into intangible resources

-- Toombs, W., Productivity: Burden of Success. Washington: AAHE, ERIC/Higher Education Research Report No. 2., 1973

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

-- John Adams, Unknown , Unknown

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

-- Joseph Brodsky, Unknown , 1991, May 19

There is an immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

-- Oscar Wilde, Unknown , born October 16, 1854

There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it.

-- Niven's Law # 16, Unknown , Unknown

There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar.

-- Marvin Bressler, Unknown , born 1923

There is no problem, however trivial, that by strict application of accepted methods of pedagogy cannot be rendered completely incapable of solution.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

There is no reason why good can’t triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

There is only one thing that costs more than education today, the lack of it.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

There is very little wrong with the rat that cannot be overcome by the education of the experimenter.

-- Harlow, Unknown , 1953

They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool.

-- Smokey Robinson, song, Unknown

They'll remember you if you're the best reader in class--or if you throw up at lunch.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

This road has been paved with the best mistakes I ever made.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Those outside the university think of it as an ivory tower, removed from "the real world," while most of those inside the university believe that it is a very real world of its own, and they look out upon those not fortunate enough to lead "the life of the mind"…with a certain detachment, a sense of irony, and a definite feeling that the turning of a well-wrought sentence is of far greater significance, as well as of greater visceral pleasure, than the selling of one of Detroit's new automobiles.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

-- Walter Benjamin, Unknown , Unknown

Those who wander are not necessarily lost.

-- Joseph Stine, Unknown , Unknown

Those whom the gods would destroy they first call "promising."

-- Jan Carew, Unknown , Unknown

Time is the best teacher, unfortunately it kills all of its students.

-- Bumper Sticker, Unknown , Unknown

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought--that is being educated.

-- Edith Hamilton, Unknown , Unknown

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

-- Benjamin Disraeli, Unknown , Unknown

To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

-- Theodore Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

-- George Washington, Unknown , Unknown

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the educator.

-- Maria Montessori, Unknown , Unknown

To teachers, students are the end products, -- all else is a means. Hence there is but one interpretation of high standards in teaching: standards are highest where the maximum number of students-- slow learners and fast learners alike-- develop to their maximal capacity.

-- Joseph Seidlin, Unknown , Unknown

To those of you who recieved honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the "C" students. I say: You, too, can be president of the United States.

-- George W. Bush, Unknown , Unknown

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

-- Roger Lewin, Unknown , Unknown

Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.

-- John Dewey, Democracy and Education, Unknown

Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.

-- Kurt Herber Adler, Unknown , born 1834

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Unknown , Unknown

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

-- Henry Kissinger, Unknown , Unknown

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

-- Edward Gibbon, Unknown , born 1737

We ain't what we want to be; we ain't what we gonna be; but thank God, we ain't what we was.

-- African-American Folk Saying, Unknown , Unknown

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.

-- Angelina Grimke, 'Appeal to the Christian Women of the South' in Anti-Slavery Examiner, Sept., 1836

We are merely endeavoring to say that by virtue of her unusual training and equipment the college graduate will find herself at first somewhat out of touch with the rest of mankind.

-- Marion Le Roy Burton, Unknown , 1914

We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices are heard.

-- Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Unknown , Unknown

We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices are heard.

-- Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Unknown , 1954

We have not...convinced our youth that the important thing about a degree is what they learn.

-- Wayne Willis, Lexington Herald Leader, p. A9,, 1996, October 4

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

-- J William Fulbright, US Senator, On Senate’s right to change its mind, Time, 1952, February 4

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

-- Daniel Boorstin, Unknown , Unknown

We must educate the heart,-- Teach it hatred of oppression

-- Charlotte Forten Grimke, "Poem", The Liberator, August 24, 1856

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

-- Robert H. Shaffer, Unknown , Unknown

We teach irresponsibly when we either condemn or indulge students.

-- Terry Olson, Focus on Faculty, Vol 15(2), Brigham Young University Faculty Center, 2005

We think of schools as places where youth learns, but our schools also need to learn.

-- Lyndon B. Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.

-- Florence King, The Portable Curmudgeon Redux. p. 209, 1992

Welcome to ____ University, Where all the students are strong, All the administrators are good-looking, And all the faculty are above average.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real

-- Billy Joel, lyrics in song Allentown, 1982

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

-- Leo Tolstoy, Unknown , 1828-1910

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

-- Dan Quayle, Unknown , Unknown

What are the purposes and priorities of teaching? . . . First, to inspire. Second, to challenge. Third, and only third, to impart information.

-- Bishop, J. Michael, Infuriating tensions: Science and the medical student. Journal of Medical Education, 59(2), 91-102., 1984

What do faculty members call administrators with half a brain? "Gifted" And what do administrators see as the main difference between tenured faculty members and terrorists? You can negotiate with terrorists.

-- Dr. George E. Walker, Vice-President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School of Indiana University, in his address at UGA's Graduate College Commencement, May, 2000

What I am asking for is a more holistic approach to learning, a disciplinary training for people who teach in college that takes into account the fact that we are educators of whole human beings, a form of higher education that would take responsibility for the emergence of an integrated person.

-- Jane Tompkins, A Life in School, p. 218, Unknown

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

-- Richard Harkness, The New York Times, 1960

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step toward something better.

-- Wendell Phillips, Unknown , Unknown

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

-- Peter Ustinov, Unknown , Unknown

What we believe in is what works.

-- Bill Clinton, Unknown , Unknown

What we do not call education is more precious than which we call so.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

What we have to do…is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

-- Hillary Rodham Clinton, Unknown , 1993

What's all the noisy jargon of the schools?

-- Pomfret, Reason. L. 57. (1700), Unknown

What's up, Doc?

-- Bugs Bunny, Warner Bros. cartoon, Unknown

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

-- Phyllis McGinley, “Moody Reflections” in Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades, Viking, 1960

When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

-- Kikuyu Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

-- Eric Hoffer, Unknown , born July 25, 1902

When we grew up and went to school There were certain teachers who would Hurt the children anyway they could By pouring their derision Upon anything we did And exposing every weakness However carefully hidden by the kids

-- Roger Waters of 'Pink Floyd', "The Happiest Days of our Lives" on the album, "The Wall", Unknown

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his "proper place" and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit.

-- Carter G. Woodson, Unknown , Unknown

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty.

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Unknown , Unknown

Where there are two Ph.Ds in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.

-- Edwin Herbert Samuel, Unknown , Unknown

Wit is educated insolence.

-- Aristotle, Rhetoric II, 384-322 B.C.

with reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the classroom to the cubicle to the coffin, it doesn't mean they're lazy. It means they're sane."

-- Anna Quindlen, Newsweek, p. 68, May 29, 2006

With written words, however, " .they seem to talk to you as though they were intelligent, but if you ask them anything about what they say, from a desire to be instructed, they go on telling you the same thing forever."

-- Plato, Unknown , Unknown

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

-- General William Westmoreland, Unknown , Unknown

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible

-- Frank Zappa, Unknown , Unknown

Women were first admitted to university in Saudi Arabia in 1962, and all women's colleges remain strictly segregated. Lecture rooms come equipped with closed-circuit TVs and telephones, so women students can listen to a male professor and question him by phone, without having to contaminate themselves by being seen by him.

-- Geraldine Brooks., Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women. NY: Anchor Books. P., Unknown

Worrying about seat time is worrying about the wrong end of the student.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

You always admire what you really don't understand.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, Meet the Press, September 16, 1956

You always pass failure on the way to success.

-- Mickey Rooney, Unknown , Unknown

You are a victim of the rules you follow.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

You can always spot an educated man. His opinions are the same as yours.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

You cannot stop the spread of an idea by passing a law against it.

-- Harry S. Truman, Unknown , Unknown

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

-- George Bernard Shaw, Unknown , born July 26, 1856

You people are not prepared. You are well educated and you look cute, but that's not going to cut it.

-- Bill Cosby, Unknown , 1992

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.

-- John Mason, Unknown , Unknown

You're college graduates now, so use your education. Remember: It's not who you know, it's whom.

-- Joan Rivers, Unknown , 1989

[Time is] the most valuable thing a man can spend.

-- Theoprastus, Unknown , Unknown

…"the life of the mind"--a phrase elastic enough to cover both the study of Goethe and the instruction of seventeen-year-olds on their comma faults, not to speak of squash games and attendance at interminable committee meetings…

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

…a college education feeds an adolescent in one end and gets a young adult out the other. In the process of those four years that person has changed significantly, and you and I have been agents of that change…..what happens, in the course of what we do, is soul making.

-- Leroy S. Rouner, philosopher, "Resolved: That Phi Beta Kappa is Gloriously Useless", The Key Reporter, p. 1, 4-5., Autumn, 2000

…Education as the practice of freedom….education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.

-- bell hooks. [Note: I'm told she prefers small letters in her name.], Teaching to Transgress, NY: Routledge, 1994

…if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. …The virtues of love as a criterion for choosing a college major…it is not pretentious. "Use" is pretentious because it claims to know something about the future that it doesn't really know. Love is immediate... [love] guarantees that you will work to your highest potential…it is part of who you are, and not just something you think, often wrongly, that you can use.

-- Leroy S. Rouner, philosopher, "Resolved: That Phi Beta Kappa is Gloriously Useless", The Key Reporter, p. 1, 4-5., Autumn, 2000

…Socrates asks him the crucial question about education, and that is, "If you study with this fellow, what will he make of you?"

-- Leroy S. Rouner, philosopher, "Resolved: That Phi Beta Kappa is Gloriously Useless", The Key Reporter, p. 1, 4-5., Autumn, 2000

‘Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

-- Alexander pope, Unknown , 1688-1744

“I taught my dog to whistle!” “I don’t hear him whistle!” “I said I taught him, I didn’t say he learned it!”

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

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