Quotes About Education

We need to make education so much fun that students can't help but learn.

I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stuff.

Like every country, North Korea has some very smart people. They could be contributing a lot more to science and other areas, but North Koreans are forced to spend so much time memorising the fake history of our dictators and other propaganda, so are at a huge disadvantage.

The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.

whenever we hired someone, they would receive a couple of LSD sessions as part of their training

Lewis Mumford once wrote that somewhere in the nineteenth century it became necessary to know how to read before one could truly see a building.

Lucas spoke with the San Francisco Examiner: "Someday, [Lucas] predicts, every ten-year old child will be able to buy a kit and shoot a movie. 'Think what this will do to our civilization. Movies will replace the pen. Everybody is going to be making movies.

Few people put veal stock in the same category as, say, the Goldberg Variations or Plato's cave allegory, and this lack of understanding amazes me.

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.

I know nothing about education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.

J'accuse toute violence en l'education d'une ame tendre, qu'on dresse pour l'honneur, et la liberté.

For being the more learned, they are none the less fools.

Ezber bilmek, bilmek de?ildir; haf?zam?za emanet edilen her ?eyi saklamakt?r.

have seen no other effects in rods but to make children's minds more remiss or more maliciously headstrong.

I had rather my son should learn in a tan-house to speak, than in the schools to prate.

You should study more to understand that you know little.

The majority of our polities, as Aristotle says, are like the Cyclops, abandoning the guidance of the women and children to each individual man according to his mad and injudicious ideas: hardly any, except the polities of Sparta and of Crete, have entrusted the education of children to their laws.

There is an abecedarian ignorance that precedes knowledge, and a doctoral ignorance that comes after it