Education Quotes

Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.

My education in the public schools of New York City between 1932 and 1944 was an excellent preparati...

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confid...

All thought is a feat of association.

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s...

Grades really cover up failure to teach. A bad instructor can go through an entire quarter leaving a...

This larger goal wouldn’t be the imitation of education in Universities today, glossed over and conc...

The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was ...

When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in ...

The student’s biggest problem was a slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot...

As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken bef...

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

They were untouched by modern education, but their government was striving with might and main to pr...

Schoolmastering kept me busy by day and part of each night. I was an assistant housemaster, with a f...

We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names o...

Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself ...

We should not value education as a means to prosperity but prosperity as a means to education. Only...

...I always took the rearmost seat in the classroom - it gave me a good view of things. And I must c...

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself...

Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accoun...

I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, ...

My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... bec...

I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me e...

My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving fami...

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality educati...

Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education,...

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance he may not love you but he will ...

Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.

In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the...

Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people fr...

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best inc...

It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays...

There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just ...

In a traditional classroom, the spread between the fastest and slowest students grows over time, [an...

It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for o...

It is also worth noting that one can obtain a Ph.D. in any branch of science for no other purpose th...

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essen...

Spend the years of learning squanderingCourage for the years of wanderingThrough a world politely tu...

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that w...

Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse ...

People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectur...

One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has educatio...

If you could arrange to avoid that routine job-world, you were an intellectual or an artist. Too res...

Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or c...

Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with low SAT scores. The only differences among us is that...

Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. Y...

Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting ch...

Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was eman...

Anything which begins new and fresh will finally become old and silly. The educational institution i...

Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow th...

Anything which begins new and fresh will finally become old and silly. The educational institution i...

Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow th...

Anything which begins new and fresh will finally become old and silly. The educational institution i...

Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow th...

Anything which begins new and fresh will finally become old and silly. The educational institution i...

Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow th...

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher...

Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of ...

If you want to expel religion from our European civilization, you can only do it by means of another...

Education -- whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even ones...

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire...

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they we...

Many of my classmates have happier memories of Blessed Sacrament, and in time I would find my own sa...

In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fi...

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the ba...

Consciously or unconsciously, our education renders us slaves to morals, religion and a perceived vi...

Entirely in accordance with what education is supposed to be. Education is the sum of what students ...

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities...

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively forti...

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fo...

You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your w...

Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but neces...

Education is neither writing on a blank slate nor allowing the child's nobility to come into flower....

The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. A...

Also, even if technocrats provide reasonable estimates of a risk, which itself is an iffy enterprise...

Because much of the content of education is not cognitively natural, the process of mastering it may...

Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscore...

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to trai...

[I]t takes so little effort and money to get rid of malaria, to bring in clean water, to give people...

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their e...

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be p...

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his aud...

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

All, all, becomes profitable. Education is of the most satisfying and available nature. I am at Smit...

If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other h...

When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise...

Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human lab...

So Merlyn sent you to me," said the badger, "to finish your education. Well, I can only teach you tw...

The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. T...

He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usua...

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. Fo...

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape not from our own time - for ...

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.