Quotes About Education

I believe that some of the greatest minds that ever lived had not read half as much and did not know nearly as much as some of our mediocre scholars. And some of our very mediocre scholars could have become greater men if they had not read so much.

No es extraño que quienes dominan al género humano ocupen un rango tan superior al de quienes lo educan? Esto revela hasta qué punto el hombre es un animal esclavo.

Populairer Vortrag heißt heutzutage nur zu oft der, wodurch die Menge in den Stand gesetzt wird, von etwas zu sprechen, ohne es zu verstehen.

Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.

A little learning is a dangerous thing and a good deal of it is suffocating.

Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise!

Too many trained nurses discommode Cupid.

Whom are you?" he asked, for he had attended business college.

Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.

my philosophy of raising kids is kind of extreme. I think you should keep a baby around for a few days after it's born—until the novelty wears off—and then you put it in a big cardboard box with all the best books of Eastern and Western civilization. Then you bury the box and dig it up again when the kid's eighteen.

I would rather have a good education and no money, than to have a fortune and be ignorant.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

This problem is pervasive within the community of believers: Christians don't know the content of their faith and show little concern about their ignorance. This

Principles early sown in the mind, are the seeds which produce fruit and harvest in the ripe state of manhood.

Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

This was yet another one of those things that school failed to prepare you for: how to deal with the unpredictable behavior of real people in the real world.

Education is learning what you didn't know you didn't know.

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.