Quotes About Education

The sessions with Mr. Dubois continued, but it was in the private parlor of Abigail Braddock that Sarah Biddle received the greatest knowledge, for in Mrs. Braddock's private parlor Sarah Biddle learned not only to read books, but also to love them.

Looking back over fifty years of science and environmental education, I find that the main thing I have taught is how to pay attention.

Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.

they get frustrated more easily, and they just don't seem to learn from their mistakes.

We have to take the biblical truth and start applying it in the statehouse, the schoolhouse, and the marketplace.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

The truth is that money doesn't make you rich; knowledge does.

If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

[Science is] the literature of truth.

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small

the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.