education quotes

Nature has always had more force than education.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

Education is the best provision for old age.

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

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

Information is not knowledge.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.