Quotes About Education

In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything

General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.

No man is the wiser for his learning

Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.

Men of culture are the true apostles of equality

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.