Quotes About Education

Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is a proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel through which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.

Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Some men are graduated from college cum laude, some are graduated summa cum laude, and some are graduated mirabile dictu.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.

Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.

Passing the SAT: My personal theory is that it has to do with how much money you send them in the mail. I think the amounts they tell you to send are actually just suggested minimum donations - if you get my drift.

'Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

Every fact that is learned becomes a key to other facts.

Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.

We need to teach a highly educated person that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts of the world.

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest part of the learning experience lies not in the particular words of the story but in the involvement with the individual reading it.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.

Like swimming, riding, writing or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy teenagers?