education quotes

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

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

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.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

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.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

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

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.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

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

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

The proper study of mankind is books.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

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

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

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.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

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

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Only the educated are free.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

Knowledge is power.

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.