Quotes About Education

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

An uneducated thief may steal goods from the train but an educated one may steal the entire train. We need to compete for knowledge and wisdom, not for grades.

The best teachers will not give you something to drink, they will make you thirsty. They will not give you answers but will put you on a path to seek answers.

The tragedy is that there are many walking encyclopedias who are living failures.

Intellectual education influences the head and values-based education influences the heart.

Schools are a fountain of knowledge: some students come to drink , some to sip and others just to gargle.

Educated people recognise their limitations but focus on their strengths.

One cannot be a good teacher unless he is a good student.

Learning is a lot like eating. It is not how much we eat that matters, but what really matters is how much we digest.

One day a partially deaf four years old child came home with a note in his pocket from his teacher, "Your Tommy is too stupid to learn, get him out of school." His mother read the note and answered, "My Tommy is not too stupid to learn, I will teach him myself." And that Tommy grew up to be the great Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison had only three months of formal schooling.

We are drowning in information but starving for knowledge and wisdom. Education ought to teach us not only how to make a living but also how to live.

On the one hand, they had most of the legal freedoms, the literal assurance that they were considered full political citizens of society - and yet they had no power. They had educational opportunities - and yet were unable, and not expected, to employ them. They had freedoms of clothing and sex mores that they had demanded - and yet they were still sexually exploited.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

No one knows all that there is to know. (This despite Mark Twain's observation that between him and Albert Einstein, they encompassed all human knowledge. As he put it, "Einstein knows all that there is to know, and I know the rest.") The task is to learn as much as you can about as much as you can; the great disease of mankind is ignorance. With

There is a sense of self, of character, and of personal self-worth and kindness and hopefulness and embrace that is characteristic of such people, educated and noneducated alike. My

We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?

The great disease of mankind is ignorance.

Teach the young people how to think, not what to think.

The three great stumbling blocks in a girl's education… homard a l'Américaine, a boiled egg, and asparagus.

Freedom means having the right to freely educate your children, and freely means no obligation to send them in a public school, where teachers want to inculcate principles different from the principles that their parents want to inculcate them in a familiar context.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

Why should I waste my time going to college and teaching those goddam professors what I know?

I just want to keep learning.