Quotes About Education

Eseldorf was a paradise for us boys. We were not overmuch pestered with schooling. Mainly we were trained to be good Christians; to revere the Virgin, the Church, and the saints above everything. Beyond these matters we were not required to know much; and, in fact, not allowed to. Knowledge was not good for the common people, and could make them discontented with the lot which God had appointed for them, and God would not endure discontentment with His plans.

Did you think you had educated the superstition out of those people?' 'I certainly did think it.' 'Well, then, you may unthink it.

Omul care nu citeÈ™te c?rÈ›i nu are niciun avantaj în faÈ›a omului care nu le poate citi.

No fact is more firmly established than that lying is a necessity of our circumstances--the deduction that it is then a Virtue goes without saying. No virtue can reach its highest usefulness without careful and diligent cultivation--therefore, it goes without saying that this one ought to be taught in the public schools--even in the newspapers. What chance has the ignorant uncultivated liar against the educated expert?

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. –

Ä°yi kitaplar okumayan biriyle, okuma yazma bilmeyen biri aras?nda hiçbir fark yoktur.

After supper she got out her book and learned me about

The first thing you want in a new country, is a patent office; then work up your school system; and after that, out with your paper.

I never let schooling interfere with my education

I was educated once – it took me years to get over it.

Never let your education interfere with your learning.

Don't let your education get in the way of your learning.

When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved. - The Prince and the Pauper

The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can't.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

At the end of half an hour Tom had a vague general idea of his lesson, but no more, for his mind was traversing the whole field of human thought, and his hands were busy with distracting recreations.

When I say I'll learn {footnote ['Teach' is not in the river vocabulary.]} a man the river, I mean it. And you can depend on it, I'll learn him or kill him.

I judged I would have the start of the best-educated man in the kingdom by a matter of thirteen hundred years and upwards.

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart. I will keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby; for learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

In these were gathered together the brightest young minds I could find, and I kept agents out raking the country for more, all the time. I was training a crowd of ignorant folk into experts—experts in every sort of handiwork and scientific calling.

CzÅ'owiek, który nie czyta ksi??ek, nie ma ?adnej przewagi nad tym, który nie potrafi czyta?.

Monday morning always found him so—because it began another week's slow suffering in school.

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