Quotes About Education

But to abolish assessments, as many Just Americans want to do, and then declare that we've achieved "equity," ensures that all students receive exactly the same lousy education.

Education a debt due from present to future generations.

We must know words not as abstract grammatical and logical quantities, but as animated and social beings. Roots, inflections, word-book definitions, are products of the decomposition of speech, not speech itself. They are dead remains, stripped of their native attachments and functions, and hence it is that a living Danish scholar, himself a man of rare philological attainment and of keen linguistic perceptions, calls scholastic grammar 'the grave of language.

No system of education can be perfect which does not teach the principle of righteousness and faith in God. Learning has not saved the world. It is of utmost importance that our children should, in the first place, be taught faith in God. This cannot be left out of our system of education.

a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

You know nothing, Jon Snow.

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much.

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Why do you read so much?" "I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind… and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.

IT IS SAID with truth that every building is constructed stone by stone, and the same may be said of knowledge, extracted and compiled by many learned men, each of whom builds upon the works of those who preceded him. What one of them does not know is known to another, and little remains truly unknown if one seeks far enough.

Reading books again? Books will ruin your sword eye, boy.

I have taught my Margaery what comely is worth, I hope. Less than a mummer's fart.

Every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better.

a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge." ? George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

El conocimiento es un arma, Jon. Aseguraos de ir bien armado antes de entrar en combate.

Jon Snow, you know nothing. You don't go in with clothes.

If I'm not learning, check my pulse!

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

The unleavened bread of knowledge will sustain life, but it is dull fare unless it is leavened with the yeast of personality.

Deliberately, women are given a deplorable education…. While man frees himself from constraining civil and religious bonds, he is only too glad to have woman hold tightly to the Christian principle of suffering and keeping her silence.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts.

A child only educated at school is an uneducated child.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.