Education Quotes

Well we're waiting here in Allentown,For the Pennsylvania we never found,For the promises our teache...

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, th...

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books an...

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be...

I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment--that of testing whether or not it was ...

My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was ra...

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to ...

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to...

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system...

There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And ou...

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not ju...

What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural...

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this w...

When you find yourself wanting to turn your children, or pupils, or even your neighbours, into peopl...

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.....

I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read...

…the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do...

His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both of abst...

The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the ...

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate fou...

If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superst...

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who...

the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propaga...

By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he ...

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who...

The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who...

What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but ...

We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill a...

If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were uneducated. But, as it is...

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common tha...

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered reg...

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers but with gratitude to those who touched ...

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary s...

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fift...

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us ...

If you had walked through the pleasant Tuscan countryside in the 1890's, you might have come upon a ...

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.

Every now and then, I'm lucky enough to teach a kindergarten or first-grade class. Many of these chi...

Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for res...

You squeeze the eyedropper, and a drop of pond water drips out onto the microscope stage. You look a...

There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe te...

Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get ...

But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - ar...

All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for...

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in ...

Mundane education is regrettably prosaic," - Jace Lightwood-Herondale

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What bet...

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty...

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your...

I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, so...

I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where hi...

He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed h...

I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!

He was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his compact with me, that he made me zealous an...

He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.

They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances...

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothi...

Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in l...

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'...

Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.

Always choose the most difficult way, there you will not meet competitors.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...

Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functionin...

The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind...

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

What grinds me the most is we're sending kids out into the world who don't know how to balance a che...

Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They hav...

We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rathe...

For Socrates, all virtues were forms of knowledge. To train someone to manage an account for Goldman...

In his entire output, I can find only one piece of genuine unfairness: a thuggish attack on the poet...

It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and...

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on...

You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.

Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand.""Of course you don't," said Brom impatient...

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and we...

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct...

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ...

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact far more than the paus...

I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students athletics for t...

It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

I did get a degree in special education.

One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another b...

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and...

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.

To one who is not eager I do not reveal anything, nor do I explain anything to one who is not commun...

In worthy teaching, all things are related.

How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educati...

Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nat...

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a t...

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs...

The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning--every teacher should kn...

This teaching job did not pay a lot of money, because, let's face it, nobody gives a flying fuck abo...

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.