Quotes About Education

I have engaged in hyper-male culture, and I'm learning about it, and I'm learning how I can change and help young boys and young men change.

The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread.

I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.

[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.

contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.

The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.

These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

Lessons cut short to prep for tests that only test how well you prep. ...Man, no wonder why the score's a mess.

Youre a rich man, why arent you smart?

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don't want to be a man.