Top 78 Quotes About Education Leadership
#1. Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'
Tom Peters
#2. In order to sustain the integrity of the organization, a business must dedicate time and resources to education, leadership development, and personnel development. Don't focus on the product. Focus on the team.
Robert Kiyosaki
#3. it appears that my bourgeois education inculcated hopelessly false notions of taste and morality, and along with them the pressing need to disseminate them by leadership. By the time I was mature enough to ofer them, society had developed and no longer felt in need of my mildewed fruits.
Elizabeth Mavor
#4. There's an article about Chicago closing dozens of schools and I should probably read it because it seems important and relevant - but to be honest, the headline about the professor in Florida telling students to 'stomp on Jesus' has really got my attention.
Tucker Elliot
#5. Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.
Wendy Kopp
#6. It's not that I had more important things to do or that I didn't want to help with whatever problems were interfering with her students being successful - rather, it's this horrible truth that life has taught me: misplaced hope is the most devastatingly painful thing you can give someone.
Tucker Elliot
#7. Education is not about Intellectual Entertainment..It is about continuous improvement, inside and outside!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#8. A great leader never fears criticism and welcomes them with openness and love as if they are the beauty of the journey.
Debasish Mridha
#10. If you have assimilated even one idea and made it your life, you have more education than any person who has got by heart the entire Library of Congress.
Abhijit Naskar
#11. An educator will teach the students. An Educarer will reach the students.
Tanya R. Liverman
#12. Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel.
Abhijit Naskar
#13. Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.
Wangari Maathai
#14. Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.
Plato
#15. The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.
Ken Robinson
#16. You never know where you can possibly reach in your lifetime if you pursue the path of constant and never ending self-development.
Deepak Burfiwala
#17. All the calculus, quantum mechanics and languages in the world are worthless pieces of information, if they are not brought to the service of the society.
Abhijit Naskar
#18. Everybody must be given the opportunity for self liberation and development.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#19. He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.
Charles Dickens
#20. A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.
Andy Hargreaves
#21. The easiest way to have a peek behind the curtain is to learn from those that are ahead of you.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#22. TO GROW OUR MIND- We must learn new things. We must CARE for more things. We must TEACH more things. We must SHARE more things. We must RETAIN more things. To grow our mind - We don't need education, We need a good memory.
Lorenzo Victory
#24. I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society.
Dalai Lama
#25. Be an example to teach, be a role model to follow, and be a leader to emulate.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.
Ann Cotton
#27. Educators are in the news, too. Usually that's bad. I had a favorite college professor. He used to tell us, 'If you make CNN as a teacher, you're probably going to jail.
Tucker Elliot
#28. For more than 20 years, Camfed has supported a generation of African girls and women with access to secondary and higher education, employment opportunities, and, ultimately, into positions of leadership.
Ann Cotton
#29. A great leader fights with great adversity, suffers greatly, but courageously, and never forget to help others is his ultimate duty.
Debasish Mridha
#30. I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don't choose where you are thrown on to this stage. So universal health, universal education, of course plenty of food and clean water.
Tim Costello
#31. I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.
Ronald Reagan
#32. Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.
Andy Hargreaves
#33. A substandard education will always result in a substandard nation.
Aubrey Priest
#34. I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.
Mark Twain
#35. Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.
Rebecca Goldstein
#36. In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
Wendy Kopp
#37. A true leader does not derive power from his position, but from his ethics, from people's love for him, and from his knowledge, education and excellence in his field of work.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#39. Children, who once looked to their parents for leadership, now turn to their teachers for knowledge, their peers for wisdom, and their music and televisions for entertainment.
David D'escoto
#40. We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.
Andy Hargreaves
#42. Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He wanted his audience to become involved. He wanted their hands up in the air. And having been a schoolteacher he knew how to get their hands up. He began, in his speeches, to ask questions.
Robert A. Caro
#43. For a leader, courage, love, and passion for service are the virtues of life.
Debasish Mridha
#44. The only service to be done for our downtrodden sisters and brother, is to give them education to develop their individuality. We must give them ideas, alongside cultivating their living conditions.
Abhijit Naskar
#45. This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
Carter G. Woodson
#46. Without action, a vision is just a piece of paper. In education, we have lots of paper.
William Sterrett
#47. I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people.
Augustine Of Hippo
#48. The philosophy of project-based homeschooling - this particular approach to helping children become strong thinkers, learners, and doers - is dependent upon the interest and the enthusiastic participation and leadership of the learners themselves, the children.
Lori McWilliam Pickert
#49. If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.
Wendy Kopp
#50. I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.
Masiela Lusha
#51. Is it more important for you to know what happened in the First World War or to memorize other significant dates in history, or is it more important to learn the strategies they used for optimum leadership, success and joyful living?
Don't you think schools need to teach the latter?
Maddy Malhotra
#52. I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give.
Malala Yousafzai
#53. The more beautiful the vision, the more complicated the execution.
Andrew Zolli
#54. The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.
Jeff Bingaman
#55. Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#56. On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.
Andy Hargreaves
#57. Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.
Jimmy Carter
#58. Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but even higher expectations for themselves.
Todd Whitaker
#59. A President must call on many persons
some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#60. I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.
Alan Autry
#61. If people institute wrong institutions, wrong institutions do not just produce wrong people, but wrong people who understand and accept mediocrity as an institution
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#62. Always seek to learn: The leader is always learning new things and gaining new insights.
Artika R. Tyner
#63. A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.
Andy Hargreaves
#64. Education should not be a competition resulting in winners and losers. Education should be a competition against ignorance, and all should be encouraged to win.
K.A. Brill
#65. Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.
Conrad Burns
#67. self-education is the education of your inner infinite creative resources and essential to get if you want to live a life of freedom, abundance and fulfillment.
Deepak Burfiwala
#68. An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader.
Tucker Elliot
#69. To all the young people out there who think money and fame is important: that's only a small piece of the pie. You need an education to be totally secure in life. I feel very secure I can go get a real job now.
Shaquille O'Neal
#70. Leadership is going for right purpose, doing right things in a right way for a right reason, with a right vision in a right time.
Debasish Mridha
#71. One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.
John P. Kotter
#72. In many U.S. schools, sports instilled leadership and persistence in one group of kids while draining focus and resources from academics for everyone. The lesson wasn't that sports couldn't coexist with education; it was that sports had nothing to do with education.
Amanda Ripley
#73. I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#74. Have you ever made a decision that sounded good at the time but then led to unanticipated results?
Holly Elissa Bruno
#75. Leadership is not about experience, education or talent. It's about choosing to lead.
Michael Hyatt
#77. I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you.
C.S. Lewis
#78. It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.
Andy Hargreaves
