Quotes About Education

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.

Selecting the right college to attend is an investment into a young man or woman's future, it's not just about basketball.

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

We are all impacted by the failings of a news media that almost always chooses which stories to cover according to the priorities and perspectives of white men with private educations.

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

They say give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. But teach a man to fish and he'll get his own show on the Discovery Channel.

For there is no business of life, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man, who has an inclination, to give a little time every day to the studies of his youth.

Man can learn everything if he will but try.

Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.