Quotes About Education

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

Adults are the first and foremost teachers of love, peace, truth, tolerance, happiness and spirituality to their children. No school on Earth can ever replace them.

The motto of Harvard isn't 'nice,' it's truth. The motto of Yale isn't 'light and nice,' it's light and truth.

The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

An educated man believing in a this-that vile sky-god rewarding him-her, but punishing your enemies with hell and fire, is uneducated.

There is no better adviser than a good book.

Awareness about lack of knowledge is the most useful knowledge.

The goals of true education are to teach acceptance, tolerance, and nonviolence.

Teaching is the best way to learn.

He who knows more is more responsible.

Schooling gives you knowledge, but education makes you wise.

The past is behind us unless we fail to learn from it.

Any education that doesn't allow you to think freely is not an education but a prison.

Conditioning was something I always shied away from, now I've learnt that training never stops.

Education does not solve any problem but it gives you the ability to solve the problem.

What you know is what you share

The ultimate goal of humanity is knowledge.

A library is more precious than a bank.

It's been said that only the educated are free, but I contend. Only those who are educated with TRUTH can be inherently free. Otherwise, you are simply indoctrinated with error.

In Scandinavia the standard of education is not only the best in the world, but the opportunities it presents are available to all, free of charge. This is the bedrock of Nordic exceptionalism.

The autonomy enabled by a high-quality, free education system is just as important as the region's economic equality and extensive welfare safety nets, if not more so.

The instructor, Ms. Pease, also taught in the church's religious school, and she had a Sunday school manner at once saccharine and condemnatory.

She's interested in Japanese history right now, so that's what I'm reading to her. And there's this saying they have about conformist society: The nail that sticks out gets pounded down.