Quote of the Day-December 18, 2009

40) "Education has for it's object the formation of character."

- Herbert Spencer

Education has a goal to give us an educated character. When will education really help all change their character instead of a few?

Quote of the Day-December 14, 2009

39) "That's what college is for; getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you are forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room."

- Jeph Jaques


College is a preparation place for the real world. It is better to take it out in college years than to screw up during your career lifetime. It is also better to make sure you learned from it as well.

Quote or the Day-December 11, 2009

38) "A university is what college becomes when the faculty looses interest in it's students."

- John Ciardi

I think this means that college professors can be more difficult to understand if they loose interest in what they teach.

Quote of the Day-December 9, 2009

37) "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."


-H. G. Wells


What I think this means is that human history is making education and catastrophe come out together in a way that is not of a benefit.

Quote of the Day-December 8, 2009

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

- Denis Diderot

I think this means that there are a lot of books so to learn anything will be harder as to study the whole world. It is going to be better to learn a little in the environment than to find it in loads of books.

Quote of the Day-December 4, 2009

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

- Ann Radcliffe

I think this means that people that are more educated avoid foolish actions. Those that rush and don't think, will fall with their errors into problems.

Quote of the Day-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 that this means that people who work in education earn less than a person who has another job/career. So this is basically encouraging people to not care for a position in education.

Quote of the Day-December 1, 2009

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

- Herbert Spencer


I know what this means (really it's straight forward). If you only have knowledge but don't do anything to help out (action)...then your knowledge isn't useful. We were meant to have knowledge to use it as a benefit.

Quote of the Day-November 25, 2009

32) "Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."

- G. M. Trevelyan


The fact is that everyone has formed the ability to read and understand. Though, they only read what they want than something that is more better (as to have a great knowledge). Better to say that this population has developed the habit to read something that has little value, than something that is better to be learned about.

Quote of the Day-November 24, 2009

31) "You don't need fancy highbrow traditions and money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves."


- Adam Cooper and Bill Collage


What I think this means is that you just need to be around people who really want to learn and not laze out. So, If I may might add too...I would say that people who want to learn also have to get what they need to learn.

Quote of the Day-November 20, 2009

30) "Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."

- James A. Garfield

What I think this means is that education is the foundation of many things such as:
- Freedom
- Justice
- Jobs/Careers
- Help keep the family together
- Be healthy
and so many other things. The basic has to be known so that the rest doesn't throw you away.

Quote of the Day-November 18, 2009

29) "Only the educated are free."

-Epictetus

This verse must have come out of the times where only whites had education. Anyways, things have changed and now this quote has meant something else. So, I think this means that the people who know at least the necessary, will survive more easy and faster.

Quote of the Day-November 17, 2009

28) "The foundation of every state is the education of its youth."


- Diogenes Latirus


What I think this quote means is that the basic thing everyone has to have is their education. Without it, the group will fall due to the fact that no other person knows what is the right thing to do.

Quote of the Day-November 13, 2009

27) "Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him."

- Dr. Thomas Fuller


What I think this means is that even if a person has education (be smart and learn his or her manners), they are still missing one little thing. This little thing doesn't look so small when it's alone. This missing element would be to not be shy; and show that this person has a voice to express what they feel.

Quote of the Day-November 10, 2009

26) "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

- B. F. Skinner

Basically, this means that when the materialistic stuff has been forgotten, your knowledge will still be with you. No matter what, your knowledge will always stick with you (except if you get Alzheimer disease, or if your dead).

Quote of the Day-November 6, 2009

25) "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

-Aristotle

An intelligent person would say something that many would think is true. Though, It is he who will not believe it. I don't know, but I think this leads to no confidence to that person later.

Quote of the Day-November 4, 2009

24) "If time flies when you are having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough."

-Jeff Mallet

It directly means that if you don't have limits when you're having fun...then you'll be in trouble. I'll become an addiction instead of a fun activity.

Quote of the Day-November 3, 2009

23) "Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We loose as much to life as we do to death."

- Elizabeth Forsythe

I guess it means that time is cruel to us because it limits our time in life. Till we die, we loose everything we own and also after we die.

Quote of the Day-October 30, 2009

22) "Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and you can determine how will it be spent. Be careful lest you let other spend it for you."

-Carl Sandburg

What this basically means is that we should spend our time wisely. Mainly because it is the only thing you have if everything else is lost. Yup, No matter what happens.

Quote of the Day-October 27, 2009

21) "An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth."

- Bonnie Friedman

When you think that you're not in a hurry, then you will somehow find your "wealth." This type of wealth would be whatever you have as a goal. If you don't worry about time, then it'll be easier to finish your task.

Quote of the Day-October 23, 2009

20) "All that belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that."

- Baltasar Gracian

This quote basically means that if you're taken away everything (that is materialistic), you haven't lost one thing yet. That is called time, & there is always time to solve your problems.

Quote of the Day-October 21, 2009

19) "If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever the search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain."

- Adlai E. Stevenson

What i think this means is that you must let your mind have liberty if you want to learn. There is no way to learn if you trap your free mind. This will cause you to learn nothing since you will have a closed mind.

Quote of the Day-October 20, 2009

18) "There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology, the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good."

-Robert Pirsig

People everywhere have had the intention to express their ideas even when they are not thinking what they are going to do. So they just go for what they think is justice no matter what comes at us.

Quote of the Day-October 16, 2009

17) For a successful technology reality must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled.

-Richard Fennon

What I think this means is that when people want to create some type of electronics or technology they must know what's going to be the use of it, how is it going to operate, and is it going to be for entertainment.

Quote of the Day-October 14, 2009

16) "Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all wrong reasons."

-R. Buckminister

People are getting technology and not using it efficiently. Maybe they do not know how to use it and they have the technology...

Quote of the Day-October 13, 2009

15) "Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand."

- Archibald Putt

What I think this means is that people who use technology are people who may have a computer system at their home may have more knowledge than those with a computer. Somehow it looks/seems like that.

Quote of the Day-October 9, 2009

14) "This is why I loved technology; if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy."

-Cory Doctorrow

What I think this means is if you know how to use technology well, then you are a master and may overpower it. Meaning you can guide others, and those others may guide others someday.

Quote of the day-October 7, 2009

13) "Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't experience it."

-Max Frisch

What I think this means is that technology is a source where people can learn from. This source is easily accessible, informative, learnable, and requires no damage unless your internet connection is slow. So, basically, we can learn from reading & visualization.

Quote of the Day-October 6, 2009

12) "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

-Clarks Third Law (1961)

What I think this means is that... Technology is like magic. They are most likely alike. There looks like there is no difference, because technology has advanced through the years like bolts of lighting. This is why the 20th century is nicknamed the 21st century.

Quote of the day-October 2, 2009

11) My word is bond, and bond means life, and I shall give my life before my word shall fail.

-Elijah Muhammed

Mr. Siyam made us have a firewrite on this comment yesterday. But, I don't want to explain all of it. So for short, what I think this means is that Elijah would give his life than actually accept he made a mistake. Which is loyal, but unnecessary. I think Muhammed should have better said "I shall accept my mistakes which won't happen again." Then he wouldn't put his life in danger.

Quote of the day-September 30, 2009

10) "Nothing succeeds the appearance of success."

-Christoper Lasch

What I think this means is that no other thing is better than success itself. No exceptions, that's the truth. It's just that simple to know that success is the superior thing (like goals).

Quote of the day-September 29, 2009

9) "Success in business requires training and discipline and hardwork. But If you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great as they ever were."

-David Rockefeller

What I think this means is that work is not going to be hard unless you think it is. So if you aren't frightened by this, then it will be easier to control or rule over.

Quote of the Day-September 25, 2009

8) "The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees their goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication."

-Cecil B. De Mille

What I think this means is that a person who keeps up & never gives up on his or her goal, will be on the right path. This person would be successful & dedicated to his or her decision. This person will not take the easy path & ruin his/her goal.

Quote of the Day-September 23, 2009

7) "If your success is not on your own term, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all."

-Anna Quindlen

This means if what you think is not success (or in better terms not an accomplishment), is not a success even if the whole world think it is. No exceptions. "What you think" is what lets you decide if what you have is good quality or not. What else could I say?

Quote of the Day-September 22, 2009

6) "What is money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants or needs to do."

-Bob Dylan

What I think this phrase means is that a person who is in success by money needs to have rest, wake up early (and be punctual). They have to be responsible, respectful, basically, this person is a very good companion, & won't let you down no matter whenever or wherever.

Quote of the day-September 18, 2009

5)"Whoever neglects learning in his/her youth looses the past and is dead to the future."

-Euripides

What Euripides is saying is that children have to love or want to learn. If they don't want to learn, they'll never learn. Even if they don't like it, it doesn't mean to ditch school education. If they don't learn, then there is no way to succeed anywhere.

Quote of the Day-September 16, 2009

4)"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than other one."

-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

What I think this means is to value your path to success. This is more important than any other thing.

Quote of the day-September 15, 2009

3)"It is possible to store in mind a million facts and still be uneducated."

-Alec Bourne

What I think this means is that education is not based on what you know...it's based on your behavior. Education cannot be well if you don't have good behavior. It makes no sense know behavior, if you don't know how to use it wisely.

Quote of the day-September 11, 2009

2)"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know, it's being able to differentiate between what you do and don't know."

-Anatole France (1844-1924)

Your acts are determined to whether you are smart to do the right thing. It's not what academics you learn, it's how you use it (you cleverness).

Quote of the day-September 9, 2009

1) "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

-Bill Cosby

What I think this means is that no one knows where they're headed to. But, success is not to give anyone what they want, It's about you. How I feel about this quote is that of grace, value of one's self is enough better than to value someone else [Just value yourself].