Education Quotes

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

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

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

The years teach much which the days never know.

Only the educated are free.

...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.

You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

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

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

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

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

All of life is a constant education.

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

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

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

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

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

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 know and what you don't.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

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

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent.

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

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

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

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

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity.

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers — they help us to learn.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.

Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

There is no education like adversity.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities—that's training or instruction—but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

To me, it's simple: if you've got the time, use it to get ready. What else could you possibly have to do that's more important? Yes, maybe you'll learn how to do a few things you'll never wind up actually needing to do, but that's a much better problem to have than needing to do something and having no clue where to start.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves

Education : a debt due from present to future generations.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

A good education is another name for happiness.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

To teach is to learn twice.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.

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

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

Education is the vaccine for violence.

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

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

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.

Children need models rather than critics.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Good is not good, where better is expected

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

I think you'd change Alabama fundamentally if in six years someone said, 'If you want the best education in America, you've got to live in Alabama.' you'd change economic development, change the image of this state, you'd offer these kids an opportunity they otherwise would never have had.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Education made us what we are.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.

They know enough who know how to learn.

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

Education is too important to be left solely to educators.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? The answer, quite clearly, is no. The Constitution, in Article I, Section 8 - which contains the general welfare clause - seeks to restrain federal government, not expand it.

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?

Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men —the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.

Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

In education it 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 know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know and it's knowing how to use the information you get.

The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay- public.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

I was x years old in the year x2.

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

The jobs are there, but, particularly for working adults, traditional education just isnt going to cut it. New ways for training that meet the real-life requirements for adults are critically important.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

Milton calls the university A stony-hearted step-mother.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate crime in the United States. You can't eliminate it, but you can try to keep a lid on it.

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

We need the best education system in the United States. The best system, not the most expensive.

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims, this can only happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just in theory, and have access to decent education and jobs.

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature.

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity — or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity — by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider your students to be human beings

"Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly grateful for that.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in equal parts.

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.

Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

Education is the best provision for old age.

I learn by going where I have to go.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Education is not the piling on of learning information data facts skills or abilities that's training or instruction but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.

We need to continually look within ourselves. Contemplate our inner being and find our own unique voice and then learn to heed it and we will then have the life experience we deserve.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Education will not (take the place of persistence); the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance

I think that the movies I do are the ones that I really like the least. I don't like watching them because of that problem.

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.