Quotes About Education

If you were really interested in being creative in teaching, it was possible to try new methods and that was really what we did in Goldsmiths - we used the freedom of the time.

There's no question that increased formal credentials can give you an advantage. The question is, is it the best advantage you can buy with the amount of money and time you're going to spend?

A teacher says "I am sowing the seeds of revolution." At that time we cannot imagine how powerful the teacher is, but he certainly derives joy by fulfilling his duty.

If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome.

The world is made wrong; kings should go to school to their own laws, at times, and so learn mercy.

Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway.

I never let school get in the way of my education!

Inherently, each one of us has the substance within to achieve whatever our goals and dreams define. What is missing from each of us is the training, education, knowledge and insight to utilize what we already have.