Education Quotes

Educated men are so impressive!

~ William Shakespeare

Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

~ Al Franken

Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.

~ Richard Dawkins

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.

~ Richard Dawkins

In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

~ C.s. Lewis

Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.

~ Amit Ray

It doesn`t hurt to get more education.

~ Donald J. Trump

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years later you find you are not a teacher anymore or you're not a painter anymore. It may happen. It has happened. I mean Gauguin decided at a certain point he wasn't a banker anymore; he was a painter. And so he walked away from banking. I think we have a right to change course. But society is the one that keeps demanding that we fit in and not disturb things. They would like you to fit in right away so that things work now.

~ Anaïs Nin

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.

~ Barry Finlay

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

~ George Macaulay Trevelyan

Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word freedom should ever be more than an empty political slogan.

~ Wilhelm Reich

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

~ Winston S. Churchill

Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life...

~ Tayeb Salih

She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.

~ Flannery O'connor

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Art is a process, not a product.

~ Maryann F. Kohl

The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.

~ Sam Wineburg

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.

~ Umberto Eco

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

~ David Eddings

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

~ Ayn Rand

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

~ Victor Hugo

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

~ Dylan Thomas

Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

~ Henry David Thoreau

[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism andcompromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting itinstead into meek subservience to authority.

~ Walter Karp

You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

~ Jeannette Walls

I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady.Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.

~ Scott Westerfeld

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

~ Oscar Wilde

If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the helmsman in an adverse direction, I conclude that this man, although he lauds navigation, really forbids me to launch my ship.

~ Seneca

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

~ John Adams

They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Osama, baah! Bashir roared.Osama is not a product of Pakistan or Afghanistan. He is a creation of America. Thanks to America, Osama is in every home. As a military man, I know you can never fight and win against someone who can shoot at you once and then run off and hide while you have to remain eternally on guard. You have to attack the source of your enemy's strength. In America's case, that's not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance. That only way to defeat it is to build relationships with these people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever.

~ Greg Mortenson

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

~ Herbert M. Shelton

Since a time has come, Mademoiselle, when the severe laws of men no longer prevent women from applying themselves to the sciences and other disciplines, it seems to me that those of us who can should use this long-craved freedom to study and to let men see how greatly they wronged us when depriving us of its honor and advantages. And if any woman becomes so proficient as to be able to write down her thoughts, let her do so and not despise the honor, but rather flaunt it instead of fine clothes, necklaces, and rings. For these may be considered ours only by use, whereas the honor of being educated is ours entirely.

~ Louise Labé

part of the art of teaching is the ability to rearrange the world for students - to force them to see things in a new way. i've known too many stupid intellectuals to believe that education and wisdom come as a package deal along with facts, it's your perspective that counts - your ability to see differently, not just to see a lot.

~ Sunny Decker

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

~ Alice Waters

Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.

~ Thomas Szasz

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.

~ Jane Austen