Education Quotes

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

It's not how much you spend, it's how you spend it. We have been putting a lot of money into education in the state of Nevada, and it's gotten us to 50th in the country in graduation rates. We needed more accountability in our system.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

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

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

It is better to learn late than never.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

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

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

An educated people can be easily governed.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

Read in order to live.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

He who laughs most, learns best.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.