School Speed Limit

Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel

Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost. - Confucius

Death and taxes are unsolved engineering problems. - Romana Machado

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice. - Horace

Books have led some to learning and others to madness. - Petrarch

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. - Herbert Spencer

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles. - Maya Lin

The way to avoid roadblocks to learning is to ask questions. - Joseph J. Thomas

Not only education but society as a whole needs deschooling. - Ivan Illich

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. - Aristippus

Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. - George Givot

When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed. - Quincy Jones

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy. - Sarah Ban Breathnach

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. - Robert J Sawyer

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school. - Adlai Stevenson

I will study and prepare myself… and someday my chance will come. - Abraham Lincoln

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that is education. - Will Rogers

I'm not buying my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. - Yogi Berra

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. - E.C. Titchmarsh

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. - Albert Einstein

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards. - Mark Twain

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. - Aristotle

Genetic Engineering: A recent attempt to formalize what farmers have been doing all along. - Unknown

If everybody in the world dropped out of school, we would have a much more intelligent society. - Jaden Smith

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - G M Trevelyan

I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment. - Willem Dafoe

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey. - Andy Roddick

You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy. - Garrison Keillor

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem. - Greg Boyle

We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we fight, without seeking our own interests. - Oliver Cromwell

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. - Lady Nancy Astor

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at four in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today. - George Foreman

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. - Rene Descartes

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. - Bertrand Russell

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. - Maria G. Mayer

With the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital. - Stephen Covey

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful – there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics. - Godfrey Hardy

President Obama smoked so much pot in college he never learned to spell. Which is why he's confusing the word "ruining" the country with "running" the country. - Kilburn Hall

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high. - Stephen Covey