Quotes About Education

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

Read much, but not many books!

Of learned Fools I have seen ten times ten, Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred.

Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into it, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinborough.

What condition of man most deserves pity?" - Franklin offered: "A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

School and other education constantly proceed upon false principles, and show a clumsy apparatus pointed at a false mark; but your apparatus is simple, and the mark a true one;

Men should be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot;

Benjamin Franklin

Learn of the skilful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.

For the studies, first they should begin with the chief and necessary rules of some good grammar, either that now used, or any better: and while this is doing, their speech is to be fashioned to a distinct and clear pronunciation, as near as may be to the Italian, especially in the vowels.

Lo que hiere, enseña...

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn

Tim was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages. So ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

If you empty your purse into your head, no one can take it away from you. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest

I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand, and enter in a little book short hints of what you find .................for this will be the best method of imprinting such particulars in your memory, where they will be ready, on some future occasion ............................

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better languages than the unlearned; but still it is nonsense.

Tell me....And I Forget, Teach me.....And I Learn, Involve Me.....And I Remember.

Accountability measures allow administrators to require the faculty to "teach to the test," rather than devise the curriculum according to its own judgment. In this way, college professors can be reduced to the same subordinate status to which elementary and secondary school teachers have already been relegated.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The schoolteacher asks Billy Bob: "If you have 12 sheeps and one jumps over the fence, how many sheeps do you have left?" Billy Bob answers, "None." "Well" says the teacher, "you sure don't know your subtraction." "Maybe not," Billy Bob replies, "but i darn sure know my sheeps.

Now one rather annoying thing about scholars is that they are always using Big Words that some of us can't understand ... and one sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the Scholars can appear Superior, and will not likely be suspected of Not Knowing Something.

Now one rather annoying thing about scholars is that they are always using big words that some of us can't understand and one sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way the scholars can appear superior, and will not likely be suspected of not knowing something. After all, from the scholarly point of view, it's practically a crime to not know everything.

There are a lot of ways an oppressed people can rise. One way to rise is to study, to be smarter than your oppressor. The concept of rising against oppression through physical contact is stupid and self-defeating. It exalts brawn over brain. And the most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.