Quotes About Education

Children will learn far more by watching than by just listening.

You can put a public school and university in the middle of every block of every city in America—but you will never keep America from rotting morally by mere intellectual education.

If a child is to survive, he or she must know the rules of safety. If he is to be healthy, he must know the rules of health. If he is to drive a car, he must know the rules of the road. If he is to become a ball player, he must learn the rules of the game. And, contrary to popular thinking, children appreciate rules.

Partial education throughout the world is far worse than none at all if we educate the mind but not the soul.

Do you know what nearly all the sociologists say today in their study of young people? The greatest problem facing young people today is not sex—it is boredom.

I am in favor of hanging the Ten Commandments in every schoolroom in the country so young people can know the difference between right and wrong. They don't know the difference and we're seeing the evidence of that all around us every day.

We have become a nation of biblical illiterates.

A survey reported that the majority of the seminaries [in the United States] had no classes on prayer. That really shouldn't surprise us when we consider how many local churches offer classes on gardening and the "Art of Conversation" instead of the study of God's Word and prayer.

When most major Protestant denominations have their annual councils, assemblies, or conventions, they make pronouncements on matters having to do with disarmament, federal aid to education, birth control, the United Nations, and any number of social and political issues. Very rarely are any resolutions passed that have to do with the redemptive witness of the Gospel.

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.

I never learned anything by losing.

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.

I never wanted to teach in my life.... I don't believe in teaching poetry at all, but that's what they want one to do. You see so many poems every week, you just lose all sense of judgment.

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

Fear in the absence of knowledge breeds irrationality. We should always seek knowledge, even in the face of fear.

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.

A teacher's focus is, and should be, on teaching and helping students, rather than on developing evidence against a particular troublemaker.

You cannot teach people hate and then ask them to practice peace. But neither can you teach people peace except by according them dignity and granting them hope.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

This is for all you kids out there watching TV, when you should go open a book. Haha.