education quotes

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

I teach children to be winners.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.