Education Quotes - Page 2

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

Education today more than ever before must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.

James Mason Wood

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

The Jews have always been students and their greatest study is themselves.

Whenever I'm asked what college I attended I'm tempted to reply Thornton Wilder'.

The freshmen bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out so it accumulates through the years.

A. Lawrence Lowell

Surely the shortest commencement address in history - and for me one of the most memorable - was that of Dr. Harold E. Hyde President of New Hampshire's Plymouth State College. He reduced his message to the graduating class to these three ideals: 'Know yourself- Socrates. Control yourself- Cicero Give yourself - Christ.'

Walter T. Tatara

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.

By learning you will teach by teaching you will learn.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay than they think.

G. C. Lichtenberg

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts ideas and theories a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.

Raymond Queneau

A good education should leave much to be desired.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.

Alfred North Whitehead

Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

George Santayana

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

T.S Eliot

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

T.S Eliot

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

You can lead a man up to the university but you can't make him think.

Finley Peter Dunne

If you think education is expensive - try ignorance.

Derek Bok

It is a greater work to educate a child in the true and larger sense of the word than to rule a state.

William Ellery Channing

I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you educate a man you educate a person but if you educate a woman you educate a family.

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards.

Rudyard Kipling

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.

Malcolm Bradbury

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

Charles William Eliot

One father is more than 100 schoolmasters.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Jung

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me and I'll understand.

Native American Saying

The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

David T. Kearns

Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

We should not value education as a means to prosperity but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition by forcing the student to stand back from it.

When there are two PhD's in a developing country one is Head of State and the other is in exile.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.

A gentleman need not know Latin but he should at least have forgotten it.

Brander Matthews

A one-book man is either a slow learner or an ill-equipped teacher.

Arrogance pedantry and dogmatism are the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Good teaching is l/4th preparation and 3/4ths theatre.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way. There was sanctuary in a library, there is sanctuary now, from the war, from the storms of our family and our own anxious minds. Libraries are like the mountain, or the meadows behind the goat lady’s house: sacred s

My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free. Slowly, I was discovering myself.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Talking to people is the most educational thing I know.

Where life ends, peace begins!

Debasish Mridha

Education these days is making youths suffer like mental patients, but no one has anything to say about it because there is no other option to be given.

Meghan Blistinsky

All the studies and all the research in the field of criminology affirm that prison education is the least expensive and most effective solution to overcrowding and strain on the budget caused by recevidism.

Christopher Zoukis

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