Quotes About Education

Books are men of higher stature.

Ignorance is ugly and is the result of a lack of education. Help change that by spreading knowledge, positivity, & love for your fellow man.

There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

Education is an asset no man can take away.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.

By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.

If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.

I don't know that we teach it. I don't know that we emphasize it... I understand the philosophical background behind it, but I don't know a lot about it, and I don't think others know a lot about it.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many

In order to succeed in business a man does not need a degree from a school of business administration. These schools train the subalterns for routine jobs. They certainly do not train entrepreneurs.

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.

Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.