Quotes About Education

the less education applicants have, the less applicants need to convince employers they're worth hiring.

Higher education is the only product where the consumer tries to get as little out of it as possible. —Arnold Kling, "College Customers vs. Suppliers"41

Government heavily subsidizes education. In 2011, U.S. federal, state, and local governments spent almost a trillion dollars on it.5 The simplest way to get less education, then, is to cut the subsidies.

By analogy, both sculptors and appraisers have the power to raise the market value of a piece of stone. The sculptor raises the market value of a piece of stone by shaping it. The appraiser raises the market value of a piece of stone by judging it. Teachers need to ask ourselves, "How much of what we do is sculpting, and how much is appraising?

Ignorance is ignorance, not a licence to believe what we like.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.

There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.

You can't learn less.

Get ready the greatest new educational facility at the approximate dynamic population center of the North American continent

There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance.

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

The schoolmastering profession has always attracted homosexual flagellants

Ignorance is the parent of fear...

La ignorancia engendra el miedo.

Benim üniversitem Yale de deÄŸildi Harvard da, bir balina gemisiydi.

if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honor and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

I look, you look, he looks; we look, ye look, they look." "Upon my soul, he's been studying Murray's Grammar!