Quotes About Education

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

The television commercial is the most efficient power-packed capsule of education that appears anywhere on TV.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

A library is thought in cold storage.

Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.

Learning without thought is labor lost.

The mind grows by what it feeds on.

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of 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.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

If you can teach me a new word, I'll walk all the way to China to get it.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.

I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how much they know about sex and how little about soap.

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

Give someone a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person how to use the internet and they won't bother you for weeks.

Give a man a fish — he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to start a commercial fishing business — he will deplete the seas, overfish the oceans, wipe out entire ecosystems, and devastate the planet.

Age 80. — Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at 20 or at 80. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable, regardless of physical capacity.