Friday, June 11, 2010

75 Inspirational Educational Quotes

The good folks at Accreditedonlinecolleges.com recently sent me a link to their site to a post called "75 Inspirational, Educational Quotes for the Classroom."

Here you will find quotes from everyone from Confucius to John F. Kennedy.

A few of my favorites:

"All things good to know are difficult to learn." -- Greek Proverb

"Education is the golden key to unlock the door of freedom." -- George Washington Carver

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." -- Abraham Maslow

4 witty rejoinders:

Anonymous said...

Here are a couple more educational quotes that came my way today:

"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other." Bertrand Russell: Freedom, Harcourt Brace, 1940

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"Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false." : Bertrand Russell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

Fascism, pronounced /ˈfæʃɪzəm/, is a radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology.[1][2][3][4] Fascists seek to organize a nation on corporatist perspectives, values, and systems such as the political system and the economy.[5][6] Fascism was originally founded by Italian national syndicalists in World War I who combined left-wing and right-wing political views, but gravitated to the political right in the early 1920s.[7][8] Scholars generally consider fascism to be on the far right of the conventional left-right political spectrum.[9][10][11][12][13][14]

Fascists believe that a nation is an organic community that requires strong leadership, singular collective identity, and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong.

Mister Teacher said...

Um, thanks, but seems a little off topic. Got any quotes about oligarchy?

Anonymous said...

No, but here is the definition:

An oligarchy (from Greek ὀλιγαρχία, oligarkhía[1]) is a form of government in which power effectively rests with a small segment of society distinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, military control, or religious hegemony. The word oligarchy is from the Greek words "ὀλίγος" (olígos), "a few"[2] and the verb "ἄρχω" (archo), "to rule, to govern, to command".[3] Such states are often controlled by politically powerful families whose children are heavily conditioned and mentored to be heirs of the power of the oligarchy.

Mister Teacher said...

An excellent display of cut and paste ability.

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