education quotes

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

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

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

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

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

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

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.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

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

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

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

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

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

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

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

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.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

I need physics more than friends.

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

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

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.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.