Education Quotes

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

~ Jane Austen

Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of.

~ Jason Mraz

What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.

~ Jeanette Winterson

The past has no power over the present moment.

~ Eckhart Tolle

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

~ Confucius

Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.

~ Heath L. Buckmaster

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.

~ Michel Legrand

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.

~ Slavoj Žižek

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

~ John Lubbock

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

~ Confucius

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan

~ Gary L. Francione

Progress just means bad things happen faster.

~ Terry Pratchett

Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself.

~ C. Joybell C.

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice

~ Gary L. Francione

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

~ Gary L. Francione

We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

~ C.s. Lewis

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

~ Robert Frost

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

~ E.m. Forster

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

~ Romain Rolland

Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

~ Malala Yousafzai

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

~ Noam Chomsky

... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

~ Norton Juster

By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits.

~ Santosh Kalwar

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

~ Fran Lebowitz

Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.

~ Charles M. Schulz

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

~ Mark Twain

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.

~ Charles M. Schulz

[Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively]Don't they teach you anything in your schools?.Pity. I suppose that's what comes of your main education flowing from Google.

~ Rachel Caine

What grinds me the most is we're sending kids out into the world who don't know how to balance a checkbook, don't know how to apply for a loan, don't even know how to properly fill out a job application, but because they know the quadratic formula we consider them prepared for the world`With that said, I'll admit even I can see how looking at the equation x -3 = 19 and knowing x =22 can be useful. I'll even say knowing x =7 and y= 8 in a problem like 9x - 6y= 15 can be helpful. But seriously, do we all need to know how to simplify (x-3)(x-3i)??And the joke is, no one can continue their education unless they do. A student living in California cannot get into a four-year college unless they pass Algebra 2 in high school. A future psychologist can't become a psychologist, a future lawyer can't become a lawyer, and I can't become a journalist unless each of us has a basic understanding of engineering.Of course, engineers and scientists use this shit all the time, and I applaud them! But they don't take years of theater arts appreciation courses, because a scientist or an engineer doesn't need to know that 'The Phantom of the Opoera' was the longest-running Broadway musical of all time.Get my point?

~ Chris Colfer

Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.

~ Flannery O'connor

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

~ Mary Ann Shaffer

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

~ Richard Feynman

College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?

~ David Wood

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

~ Plato

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

~ Baruch Spinoza

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

~ Thomas Jefferson

The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It's proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or accessing what we now call information - which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.

~ Wendell Berry

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

~ John Dewey

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.

~ Mary Wortley Montagu