Education Quotes

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, u...

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of al...

I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish,...

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they c...

I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many differ...

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no s...

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions t...

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but ma...

Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us ...

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does ...

The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over...

I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was...

I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good educat...

Derisively, Ronan said, 'No. The ancient Greeks didn't have a word for Blue.'Everyone at the table l...

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from ...

I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the ...

People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the wo...

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

We were learning to struggle. And we were learning how powerful we are when we speak.

I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill...

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot su...

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid ...

I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.

THough we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to st...

He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed pol...

Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one ...

I love my God. I thank my Allah. I talk to him all day. He is the greatest. By giving me this height...

Though we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to st...

His sisters -- my aunts -- did not go to school at all, just like millions of girls in my country. E...

Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education ...

As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a sc...

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the ...

Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?''It's like having an operation,' sa...

This education we're giving them is the tool of destruction, of course; that's what makes it so pain...

..it lay in the true function of the university to promote that interplay of view, that discussion a...

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

We have become obsessed with what is good about small classrooms and oblivious about what also can b...

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today...

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I ...

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific g...

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too muc...

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison,...

The loans I took out for my undergraduate degree were manageable. But my legal education was more ex...

Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge numbe...

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to...

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

thinking about tracking. . . . Sometime in grade school, already your fate was settled, your socialc...

subject that got people aroused . . . was Who Owns America? . . . They had a chart going . . . filli...

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educato...

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individua...

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this ...

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...

Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of w...

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural proce...

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the end...

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs...

We are in the process of disabling our most distinctive achievement - our educational system - in th...

The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individua...

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more co...

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

Never let your education interfere with your learning.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve o...

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their kn...

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a...

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, yo...

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and coul...

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully bec...

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a fu...

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in educati...

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to ...

Trust, trust in the world, because this human being exists - that is the most inward achievement of ...

I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligen...

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in expl...

I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good...

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence...

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation wit...

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments an...

Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react stro...

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they l...

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young p...

You went to school," Lee said. "I mean, at some point. And it didn't suit you very well. They wanted...