education quotes

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

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.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

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’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

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.

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

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Common Core is a big win for education.

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

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

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

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

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

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

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

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

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

Libraries raised me.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.