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Quotes About Education

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
~ Angelina Grimke
Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it.
~ Adora Svitak
We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.
~ Frank Herbert
Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.
~ Frank Zappa
Instead of focusing on the world's problems, give your attention and energy to trust, love, abundance, education and peace. :-)
~ Rhonda Byrne
The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.
~ Clifford Allbutt
The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.
~ Socrates
My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.
~ Heather O'Rourke
We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.
~ Arthur Boyd
I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.
~ E. M. Forster
In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me
~ Aravind Adiga
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
~ Henry James
Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
~ Frederick Douglass
Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do
~ Rakim
But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?
~ Daniel Berrigan
Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
~ Galen
Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.
~ Charley Reese
The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Christianity is not a doctrine, not truth as truth, but the knowledge of a Person; it is knowing the Lord Jesus. You cannot be educated into being a Christian.
~ Theodore Austin-Sparks
The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
~ Shakuntala Devi
There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.
~ James May
The classroom's the last room to get the truth.
~ Zack de la Rocha