Education Quotes

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.

~ Benedict Cumberbatch

For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

~ Thomas Henry Huxley

We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve higher grades in school and college and have more success in their careers than others. Success depends on the ability to delay gratification, which is precisely what a consumerist culture undermines. At every stage, the emphasis is on the instant gratification of instinct. In the words of the pop group Queen, “I want it all and I want it now.” A whole culture is being infantilised.

~ Jonathan Sacks

I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they’d be bored as hell by me. It’s a lonely way to go through life.

~ Gillian Flynn

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

~ Jane Austen

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

~ Terry Pratchett

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

~ Ivan Illich

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

~ B.f. Skinner

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

~ Greg Mortenson

A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no way for him to grow up, to learn to take responsibility for his life and acts. Most important of all, we should not assume that having to yield to the threat of our superior force is good for the child's character. It is never good for anyone's character.

~ John Holt

I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how tobecome a professional writer. I say to you, If you really want to hurt yourparents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you cando is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestitehermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you'vebeen to college.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.

~ John Dewey

Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

~ Charles Dickens

Spend the years of learning squanderingCourage for the years of wanderingThrough a world politely turningFrom the loutishness of learning.

~ Samuel Beckett

Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

~ Plato

Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.

~ Harry Truman

If you consider a woman less pure after you’ve touched hermaybe you should take a looks at your hands.

~ Kaija Sabbah

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

~ Tallulah Bankhead

I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.

~ Benedict Cumberbatch

Being able to go beyond the information given to figure things out is one of the few untarnishable joys of life. One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know more than you ought to. And this takes reflection, brooding about what it is that you know. The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.

~ Jerome Bruner

The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.

~ H.l. Mencken

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

~ Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

~ David O. Mckay

The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.

~ David O. Mckay

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

~ John Maynard Keynes

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.

~ John Dewey

When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.

~ Garrison Keillor

Education isn't for getting a job. It's about developing yourself as a human being.

~ Liz Berry

I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.

~ Patricia Briggs

Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.

~ Jonathan Hennessey

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

~ Woodrow Wilson

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.

~ Abraham Lincoln

If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.

~ John Holt

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.

~ Nicolas Chamfort

The COUNTRY is controlled by LAWS>LAWS are controlled by POLITICIANS>POLITICIANS are controlled by VOTERS>VOTERS are controlled by PUBLIC OPINION>PUBLIC OPINION is controlled by the MEDIA (News, Hollywood, Internet...) & EDUCATIONso. whoever controls MEDIA & EDUCATION, controls the COUNTRY.

~ William J. Federer