Quotes About Education

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have Bolshevism in Eastern Europe.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.

If boys don't learn, men won't know.

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

All men desire by nature to know.

There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.

Everything I know I learned by listening and watching. Nowadays people learn out of books instead. Doctors study what man has learned. I pray to understand what man has forgotten.

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.

There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself.