Friday, December 18, 2009

40) "Education Has For Its object the formation of character."

-Herbert Spencer

I think this quote means that education requires you to have your supplies but the student has to be ready to learn new things.


Tuesday, December 15, 2009

39) " Thats what college is for getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before youre forced into the real world.I keep a checklist of them on the wall in my room.

-Jeph Jaques

I think this quote means that you should experience mistakes while youre in college rather than having to deal with them as an adult in the real world.

Friday, December 11, 2009

38) " A University is what college becomes when the faculty looses interest in its students."
-John Ciardi

I think this quote means that usually when a university falls apart its because the students are lacking and the staff are'nt putting enough effort.
37) " Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
-H.G. Wells

I think this quote means that our population is growing and we experience new things everyday and our education grows.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

36) " The number of books will grow contianually and one can predict that the time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from direct study of the whole univerese.It will be almost as convenient to search some bit of the truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden in an immense multititude of bound volumes."

Denis Diderot

I think this quote means that there will be a time where all your questions will be more difficult to find the answers so you have to find different ways to find your conceierns.

Friday, December 4, 2009

35) " A well informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and voice.The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error to escape the language of idleness.

- Ann Radicliffe

I think this quote means that you should not run away from your fears in you should try to achieve them .

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

34) " America believes in education. The average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a week."

-Evan Esar

I think this quote means that America is trying to say theres more things in life than playing a sport you can find yourself a more steardy job where you can make more money.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

33) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

- Herbert Spencer

I think this quote means that your main target is to actually enjoy learning it should be your passion that way you will learn more things that you can find interesting to you.