Quotes About Education

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Freedom can occur only through education.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

A classical work of literature can never be completely understood. But those who are educated and educating themselves must always desire to learn more from it.

Qui augmente sa connaissance augmente son ignorance.

Je mehr man schon weiß, je mehr hat man noch zu lernen. Mit dem Wissen nimmt das Nichtwissen in gleichem Grade zu, oder vielmehr das Wissen des Nichtwissens.

Vielmehr stellt er auch die Bildung vor die Frage, wie der Konflikt zwischen Glaube und Wissen etwa durch gebildete Reflexion zumindest abgemildert werden kann.

Das erinnert zugleich daran, dass der Zusammenhang von Bildung und Glaube oder Religion heute im Blick auf die multireligiöse Situation in unserer Gesellschaft analysiert und erörtert werden muss.

Bemerkenswerterweise werden gerade dadurch die religiösen Voraussetzungen von Bildung in neuer Weise interessant und klärungsbedürftig.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.

he had shown me how to do that maybe a dozen times before. But that was the time that it stuck

the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Final Solution, "9-11." We might even be able to rattle off the dates of these awful events—but the lesson, we haven't yet absorbed. And until we really learn it, kids will keep getting new dates to memorize for history class.

The Atonement of Jesus Christ does not just provide a way to clean up messes; it provides the purpose and desire to avoid making more messes. The Atonement doesn't allow us to ignore our appetites or pretend they don't matter, but to educate and elevate them.

If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

I could go to UT, make the Dean's List, and get a master's in education, but I would always be a third-generation delinquent to the older folks. They weren't wrong, of course, but it was still unkind of them to comment on it.

If you can read, there is no worldly wisdom that cannot be gathered from the pages of a book.

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

his face. "There are different ways to explain it. Here is one. The purpose of existence is the education of the will. And the meaning of life is to learn to love the right things.

This is insanity!" "No, this is scholarship!

I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?

Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.

You learned this," Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, "from a book." "Er…yes?" He looked back at the picture. "I need to read more.