Quotes About Education

I always keep myself in a position of being a student.

I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Love teaches even asses to dance.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step toward something better.

The "C" students run the world.

Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I am going to complete every pass.

Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.

Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.

Reading maketh a full man.

Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.

In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line. ... From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.

What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood.

Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.