Quotes About Education

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.

In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.

No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge

Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.

University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers.

Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.

Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to.

We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.

Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?