Quotes About Education

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!

I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.

Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily.

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.

I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath a tree, usually by a gently flowing stream.

A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.

Honour your daughters, trust them and most importantly, educate them.

You can never rely on a horse that is educated by fear. There will always be something that he fears more than you. But, when he trusts you, he will ask you, what to do when he is afraid.

Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.

You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.

I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.