Definition Of Education Quotes

#1. Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.

Jane Haddam

#2. We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth.

Kenneth Keniston

#3. My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.
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Arthur C. Clarke

#4. The very definition of what it means to be alone has changed. To be physically alone is still relatively easy, but many of us struggle daily to turn off e-mail, computers, or cell phones... Our students...find requests not to text during these activities strange, annoying, and downright silly.

Jose Antonio Bowen

#5. An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

Francois Hollande

#6. The definition of your life is you and your character. So define yourself in your own way.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Mistakes can be like ice. If we resist them, we may keep on slipping into a posture of defeat. If we include mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.

Benjamin Zander

#8. The mind is an instrument made up of universal consciousness, egocentric consciousness, societal consciousness, along with education, values, virtues, judgment and wisdom.

Debasish Mridha

#9. What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and applies only to them; it is that which satisfies the rules of logic. But in education it is not that; it is one that can be understood by the pupils.

Henri Poincare

#10. A 5 yr. old's definition of nursery school: "A place where they teach children who hit, not to hit, and children who don't hit, to hit back."

James E. Myers