Quotes About Education

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.

Kids need to be structured in some way, but you don't want to force something down their throats that they have no interest in.

There is a well known saying among designers in the educational games business: 'If you want to take all of the fun out of it, get a bunch of educators involved.

I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand.

I don't mind if I have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is education. And I'm afraid of no one.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.

I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can.

I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids.

If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation.

That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.

I like Colin Wilson, mainly because he never went to school. When you don't go to school you can say anything you want like that and not have to worry.

There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism .

Everything has an educational value if you look for it. But it's the fun I want to get across.