Education Quotes

Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in ...

Thinking about our schooling in different decades and parts of the country, all three of us in that ...

Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others...

A truly educated man never ceases to learn. He never ceases to grow. I hope you women, as you take u...

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, ...

With modern technology it is the easiest of tasks for a media, guided by a narrow group of political...

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religio...

I finally understood that I didn’t lack pen and paper but my ownmemorizing mind. It had been given a...

The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading h...

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in...

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth centur...

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the tho...

Mr. Polly went into the National School at six and he left the private school at fourteen, and by th...

I tell you, stupidity, self-protective stupidity, is the fundamental sin. No man alive has a right t...

But I have believed always and taught always that what God demands from man is his utmost effort to ...

But the old traditions of sectarian misdirection still in spite of a certain advance in technical ef...

The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young...

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the ...

In brief, the teaching process, as commonly observed, has nothing to do with the investigation and e...

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity ...

I didn't want to be educated. It wasn't the right time of my life for concentration, it really wasn'...

I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to cons...

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the pu...

Without the continued existence of the democratic system and of publicly funded education and resear...

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me tw...

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

One reads for oneself and for strangers.

Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal (...). There is a tendency (...) for certa...

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider m...

The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin fi...

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends mo...

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose st...

I began my studies with eagerness. Before me I saw a new world opening in beauty and light, and I fe...

I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My...

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

There are times when I long to sweep away half the things I am expected to learn; for the overtaxed ...

It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my edu...

How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skel...

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of iner...

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taugh...

The habit of looking at life as a social relation — an affair of society — did no good. It cultivate...

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants....

I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports t...

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Book...

It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be...

Why, then,' answered the squire, 'I am very sorry you have given him so much learning; for, if he ca...

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young...

Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the quest...

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governme...

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stag...

Thus the struggle between rule and spirit repeats itself year after year from school to school. The ...

I was not a good scholar, and during my last year at school I made little effort. This was not due t...

He was pleased with everything that he did and learned and the days and months passed quickly. But h...

It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of St...

No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them...

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --th...

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions o...

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within the hearsay of little childre...

I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in soci...

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at...

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to...

Since in early youth it cannot be known what ends are likely to occur to us in the course of life, p...

If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes ...

Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – ...

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

People think of education as something that they can finish. And what’s more, when they finish, it’s...

People think of education as something they can finish.

Many years later he looked through one of my books and said, "How did you learn all this, Isaac?""Fr...

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, t...

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influ...

By offering the educated a semblance of freedom he made the denial of real freedom even more painful...

I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and ...

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach ...

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

I can see how, with enough false education, enough widespread illusion and error, men can, while rem...

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would...

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation ...

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salva...

Schools are even less efficient in the arrangement of the circumstances which encourage the open-end...

Skill teachers are made scarce by the belief in the value oflicenses. Certification constitutes a fo...

In fact, healthy students often redouble their resistance to teaching as they find themselves more c...

We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which former...

Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow ...

I'm not trying to tell you," he said, "that only educated and scholarly men are able to contribute s...

I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies...

I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—th...