Humanizing Education Quotes & Sayings

The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting life. In a word, science and liberalism ... have accomplished the very things for which religion claims the credit. — E. Haldeman-Julius

Greed is a strange, strange sin.
All you want to do is acquire. Acquire money, acquire material, acquire time, acquire energy, acquire attention. The running mantra is "I want, I want, I want" but that quickly turns to "I need, I need, I need."
Suddenly there just isn't enough time for friends, for family, for anyone. Your goal is to acquire and to make sure what you acquire stays acquired. Your life depends on it. You don't see truth because the truth is shadowed by enormous homes, incredibly fast cars, in lavish spending. Your life no longer belongs to you, but you are blind to it all because those around you are seeking the same.
So you shuffle along at an impossible rate, and you pass the real world around you.
But what you'll come to realize, altogether too late, is that it's never enough.
It's simply never enough — Amelie Fisher

There's something so comforting to me about having a cup of tea, and it really needs to be made with love - I can taste the difference. — Miranda Kerr

Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves. — Justin Davis

A soul untried by sorrows is good for nothing. — Theophan The Recluse

With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center. — Jeff Bridges

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile — Isaac Asimov

a man may be very dogmatic in his opposition to dogma. Such — Arthur Conan Doyle

I'll say I'm happy doing my thing. No one says 'no comment' anymore. — Conan O'Brien

Education and study, and the favours of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes. — Plutarch

Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68) — Brene Brown

International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction ... We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education. — J. William Fulbright

The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts. — Ernest A. Fitzgerald

Is it about a bicycle? — Flann O'Brien

When Love gives, it gives all; when it takes, it takes all. It's very taking is giving. — Mikhail Naimy

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship. — William Glasser

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. — Margot Asquith

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man. — Clarence Darrow

When you don't know, you will always be right. — Maximus Freeman