Quotes About Education

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

James Agate, a great critic of the day, advised me that the way to learn your job properly was to learn Shakespeare, so I went to Stratford. It really sorts out the men from the boys.

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks.

Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.

Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.