The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Read with care, George Orwell’s diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Information is not knowledge.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

There is no education like adversity.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

I’m tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

It’s not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, ‚Read,‘ but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, ‚Don’t read, don’t think, just write,‘ and the result could be a mountain of drivel.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.