Quotes About Education

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplishments of skipping and skimming.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

I hate books; they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Beware of the man of one book.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.

No one is the worse for knowing two languages.

Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; and those who can do neither, administer.

In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom, where the old ways are taught, but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise.

Management is now where the medical profession was when it decided that working in a drug store was not sufficient training to become a doctor.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.

Character is perfectly educated will.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

Books ... rarely, if ever, talk about what children can make of themselves, about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child.

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

When one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.