Education Quotes

[Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively]Don't they teach you anything in your sch

~ Rachel Caine

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

~ Greg Mortenson

Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.

~ Max Brooks

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

~ Agatha Christie

The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

~ Thomas A. Edison

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

~ J.d. Salinger

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.

~ Harold Howe

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

~ Julia Child

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they’ve learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.

~ Greg Mortenson

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

~ Molière

The only things you learn are the things you tame

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

~ Ezra Pound

A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.

~ Anne Bishop

I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.

~ Malala Yousafzai

I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, ‘If he comes, what would you do Malala?’ then I would reply to myself, ‘Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.’But then I said, ‘If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.’Then I said I will tell him how important education is and that ‘I even want education for your children as well.’ And I will tell him, ‘That’s what I want to tell you, now do what you want.

~ Malala Yousafzai

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

~ Bell Hooks

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

~ John Adams

‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance.

~ Khaled Hosseini

The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

~ Plato

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

~ Aristotle

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.

~ Ruth Beechick

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.

~ Maria Montessori

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

~ Frantz Fanon

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

~ May Sarton

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

~ Helen Keller

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.

~ H.l. Mencken

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

~ Freeman Dyson

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

~ George Clooney

All of life is a constant education.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

~ Ambrose Bierce

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

~ Paulo Freire

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

~ Malala Yousafzai

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

~ Murray N. Rothbard

It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.

~ Jim Benton

[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.

~ Raymond S. Moore