Top 1198 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Educators - Page 2

The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

View health as an investment, not an expense.

Mexico isn't a country of routine debates among presidential candidates.

I did get Tom Hanks to say, Life is just a box of chocolates.

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.

Slow down and think about the lessons of the elders.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.

The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore.

Love can be understood only 'from the inside,' as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.

The NATO treaty is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

Children learn to smile from their parents.

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.

We live by the golden rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.

Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.

Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.

The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?

We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.

There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No paleontologist..denies that this is so. It is simply a fact, Darwin's theory and the fossil record are in conflict.

Truth is the best defense.

We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.

Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

The heart of science is measurement.

Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

It is a sin to be poor.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to be treated by adults with tenderness and respect, as equals. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be - The unknown person inside each of them is the hope for the future.

By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

We've lost our competitive spirit. We've become so obsessed with making kids feel good about themselves that we've lost sight of building the skills they need to actually be good at things.

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

Anyone reading contemporary poetry - especially contemporary African-American poetry - will quickly see that race is an enduring subject. What some don't realize is just how diverse the handling of that subject is. It's as diverse as blackness.

Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates, may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.

Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.

The single most important key to sex that I've yet discovered is conscious rhythmic breathing; the more you breathe the more you feel and the more you come alive. Many of us breathe only enough to survive but not to live fully. Deep breathing is a door to waking up to healing and to more personal freedom.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.