Quotes About Educational Psychology

#1. What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering and humiliation and deep hurt to a person who is trying so hard to succeed?

Virginia Mae Axline

#2. Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#3. Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

Alfred North Whitehead

#5. To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

William James

#6. There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

Abraham Ibn Ezra

#7. Everyone is the same for the first two minutes, everyone has a chance to win, but after that you start to seperate physically and mentally.

Marcelo Garcia

#8. Most adults suffer from difficulties in achieving the truth, because social and educational conditionings have blocked the mind from accessing it. In psychology, this process is called crystallization, and explains the inability to change over the years.

Daniel Marques

#9. Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly.

Lev S. Vygotsky

#10. The American educational psychologist Patricia Alexander has expressed the view that fear paralyses and curiosity empowers. Accordingly, she reasons, we should always be more interested than afraid.

John Dolan

#11. As the state's top lawyer, I am empowered to protect nonprofit donors from fraudulent solicitations and charitable assets from misuse.

Eric Schneiderman

#12. J. I. Packer says, "Knowing God is more than knowing about Him; it is a matter of dealing with Him as He opens up to you, and being dealt with by Him as He takes knowledge of you."1

Billy Humphrey