Educational Enrichment Quotes & Sayings

The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail in directing the enormous power of human knowledge to the enrichment of our own lives and the shaping of a rational and civilized world order ... It is the task of education, more than any other instrument of foreign policy to help close the dangerous gap between the economic and technological interdependence of the people of the world and their psychological, political and spiritual alienation. — J. William Fulbright

I didn't mean to say that. Um, pay no attention to the lunatic inhabiting this body. — Thea Harrison

Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The word "robot" comes from the 1920 Czech play R.U.R. by playwright Karel Capek ("robot" means "drudgery" in the Czech language and "labor" in Slovak). — Michio Kaku

If you're coasting,you're either losing momentum orelse you're headed downhill. — Joan Welsh

We haven't usually had to face the extreme questions about liberty and order because we're not a nation of extremists. We love freedom and good government both. — David Ignatius

It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it. — Elizabeth Olsen

Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment. — Jamais Cascio

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique. — Edmund White

I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination. — Howard Zinn

Television thus illustrates the mixed blessings of technological change in American society. It is a new medium, promising extraordinary benefits: great educational potential, a broadening of experience, enrichment of daily life, entertainment for all. But it teaches children the uses of violence, offers material consumption as the answer to life's problems, sells harmful products, habituates viewers to constant stimulation, and undermines family interaction and other forms of learning such as play and reading. — Kenneth Keniston

The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him. — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

A well rounded education never hurt anyone".

~R. Alan Woods [1999] — R. Alan Woods

In a world where education is predominantly verbal, highly educated people find it all but impossible to pay serious attention to anything but words and notions. There is always money for, there are always doctrines in, the learned foolery of research into what, for scholars, is the all-important problem: Who influenced whom to say what when? Even in this age of technology the verbal humanities are honoured. The non-verbal humanities, the arts of being directly aware of the given facts of our existence, are almost completely ignored. — Aldous Huxley

I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource. — Thomas Jefferson