Quotes About Education

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.

The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.

If I had read as much as other men, I should have known no more than they.

Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Follow your interests, get the best available education and training, set your sights high, be persistent, be flexible, keep your options open, accept help when offered, and be prepared to help others.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter.

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Until they are of the age to use the brain.

First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar.

It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils, and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.

The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.

He who can does. He who can't, teaches.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.