Quotes About Education

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

I have a huge passion for literature.

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Knowledge is power, but powerless If you've got it and you do not acknowledge it

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

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

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

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.

Children are our future. We cannot allow them to run amok. -pg. 167 The Collected Sayings of the Emperor "The Demon's Daughter

They are simply opening up more and more schools so the system will look good on paper. It's all bluff,' said one of the professors. 'It's only education on paper. They build the building. They put up the sign. And that's it. After that they go away. They don't care about quality. They don't care if the teachers are properly trained, or if the school is fully equipped.

I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.

And learn, never stop learning what the wise teach

Vede, i bambini ci educano come noi li educhiamo. M. deve precisamente insegnarle a trionfare sulla sua ansietà profonda imparando a immettere una creatura nella vita senza preoccuparsi eccessivamente del domani.

Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.

I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know that blacks had done any great things. I was always conscious of my inferiority and I always remembered my place - until the Civil Rights Movement came to the town where I was born and grew up.

Beware of a man of one book.

Tell me and I'll forget,teach me and I will remember ,involve me and I will learn.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.