Quotes About Education

You didn't help chop up a two-hundred-fifty-pound man and still graduate at the top of your class without learning how to compartmentalize.

Sara had once asked the woman why she didn't go to medical school, only to be told that nurses were the ones who practiced the real medicine.

It was getting to be so ridiculous, she was surprised there weren't special schools for the boring, average children.

Un niño escribió: El cuerpo humano está formado por el cerébreo, el bórax y la cavidad abominable. El cerébreo contiene el cerebro. El bórax contiene los pulmones, el hígado y otros seres vivos. La cavidad abominable contiene los intestinos, que son dos: el gordo y el flaco.1 Es

As you proceed through your study of physics, you will find that every one of the measurable quantities that is discussed can be specified in terms of only four basic dimensions: mass, length, time, and electric charge. In this chapter, we will begin a study of the first three of these.

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.

Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity

Defining by a general law the expenditures on the...school....is a very different thing from appointing the state as educator of the people. Government and church should rather be equally excluded from any influence on the school.

The advance of capitalist production develops a working class which by education, tradition and habit looks upon the requirements of that mode of production as self-evident natural laws.

capital collapses because it cannot exist alongside shared knowledge

The materialist doctrine concerning the changing of circumstances and upbringing forgets that circumstances are changed by men and that it is essential to educate the educator himself. This doctrine must, therefore, divide society into two parts, one of which is superior to society. The coincidence of the changing of circumstances and of human activity or self-changing can be conceived and rationally understood only as revolutionary practice. - Theses On Feuerbach (1845)

a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.' Sophocles.

The man who was speaking had a degree in jargon and a doctorate in nonsense.

I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula agreed.

Perhaps sex was something you had to learn and then stick at until you were good at it, like hockey or the piano. But an initial lesson would be helpful.

You don't see the point of English literature?' 'I don't see the point of studying it. Surely one just reads it?

Martin couldn't imagine a world where there was no time to read.

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.