Quotes About Education

Teach the young minds the agriculture rather than technology.

The hunger and thirst for knowledge ensures lifelong success.

The only way to gain wisdom, is through loving books.

To be content with success, you have to be hungry for books.

We are not born with wisdom, but we acquire it by reading books.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Inspire creativity in students

It's not enough to be good at something to be in your element… We're being brought up with this idea that life is linear. This is an idea that's perpetuated when you come to write your CV — that you set out your life in a series of dates and achievements, in a linear way, as if your whole existence has progressed in an ordered, structured way, to bring you to this current interview.

There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Why not?

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.

The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.

Not more knowledge but better use of the knowledge which we now have, is perhaps the main educational need and the main educational problem which confronts us.

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.

I am the very model of a modern Major-General.I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,I know the Kings of England, and I quote the fights historical,From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.

Despite my efforts, I was something less than a model student, subject to passionate eruptions in class and wild excursions into related topics. At home I rehearsed calm deliveries, practiced lowering my voice to make it sound authoritative and cool, but in the heat of the moment, I would always forget.