Education Yeats Quotes & Sayings

You could be Charles Manson, or Hitler, or even a lawyer who advertises on television, and your dog will still think you're the greatest thing ever. This tells you something very important about dogs: They are not very bright. — Dave Barry

In adopting these attitudes and practices, a parent will accomplish a large part of educating a child for responsibility. And yet, example alone is not enough. A sense of responsibility is attained by each child through his or her own efforts and experience. While the parents' example creates the favorable attitude and climate for learning, specific experiences consolidate the learning to make it part of the child's character. Therefore, it is important to give specific responsibilities to children matched to their different levels of maturity. In most homes children present problems, but parents find the solutions. If children are to mature, they must be given the opportunity to solve their own problems. — Haim G. Ginott

We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for our life in cities, which deafens or kills the passive meditative life, and our education that enlarges the separated, self-moving mind, have made our souls less sensitive. — W.B.Yeats

Education is not filling — William Butler Yeats

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - W. B. Yeats — Daniel Coyle

The use of anthropomorphic terminology forces you linguistically to adopt an operational view. And it makes it practically impossible to argue about programs independently of their being executed. — Edsger Dijkstra

When I drove for British teams ... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog. — Alain Prost

We should all have personal hot air balloons and drift serenely through the clouds. — Rhys Bowen

Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire. — William Butler Yeats