education quotes

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

‚Educational‘ refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

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

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

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

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

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

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

For me, education was power.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

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

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

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.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

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.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

I’m not really book-smart.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

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

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

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

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.