Quotes About Education

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

I want to deal with the truth and a proper education that will not allow us to be educated and then come out and beg another man for a job when you should be creating a job for yourself.

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true.

Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

Education must remove hatred between the pilgrims on the various roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Truth, one Religion and one Reason.

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.

I'm a big believer in education. If people learn the truth, they'll see the benefit if they have gender neutral policies.

Who never found what good from science grew, Save the grand truth, that one and one make two.

All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare.

Truth is, I wouldn't know a gigabyte from a snakebite.

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.

...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.

And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.

Only as we give the children the truth about life can we expect any improvement in it.

For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.

Hearing alone is less effective in learning God's truth than hearing combined with reading.