Quotes About Education

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

For twenty years I strove to free myself from what I retained of my education; I indulged my curiosity by reading books less to learn than to efface from my memory the ideas that had been thrust upon it.

It has always amazed me that these people who are trying to learn and understand the world around us before it is bulldozed out of existence, have to work on piteously low salaries or on minuscule and precarious grants, while they do one of the most important jobs in the world. For it is only by learning how the planet works that we will see what we are doing wrong and have a chance to save it and ourselves as well.

My family's ignorance of the world they lived in was always a source of worry to me, and I never lost an opportunity of imparting information.

Secondo me, bisogna trovargli un nuovo istitutore», disse Larry. «Ti allontani da casa cinque minuti, e quando torni, lo trovi che sta sbudellando Moby Dick nel portico.»

I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.

I believe that all children should be surrounded by books and animals.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

When she had discovered that I hungered to learn, she commenced to shovel knowledge my way as vigorously as she spaded the cowpats into her beloved flower beds.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

The work will teach you how to do it.

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.

The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

We firmly believe that therapy is education rather than healing; that it is growth rather than treatment.

Father reading report card: One thing in your favor - with these grades, you couldn't possibly be cheating.

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.

Accurate information is a key part of motivation.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

I don't want to be patronizing . . . that means "talking down."