Quotes About Education

The study of the past is the main portal through which culture is acquired.

The kid scared her sometimes, he was so smart. She wondered where he inherited it. Not from her gene pool, that was for sure. Richard, her first husband and Gabe's father, was smart enough but no genius. She also wondered from time to time whether being so precocious made him an outcast at his private boys' school. It couldn't be easy.

A Jewish ethical treatise warns that a man must not express his anger by pounding on a book or by hitting people with it. The angry teacher must not hit the bad student with a book, nor should the student use a book to ward off blows.

I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.

When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'

He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it

They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

Joe attended Xavier High School, a Catholic military academy, and later Fordham University, a Jesuit school.

Adams had gone to Harvard, Jefferson to William and Mary. Washington had gone to war.

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either.

A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

He who has imagination without learning has feet but no wings.

To teach is to learn twice.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. Joseph Joubert may 16 2002

Enseigner, c'est apprendre deux fois

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.