Quotes About Education

It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

God, there's teaching biology and teaching sexuality, and it's two separate things. They mix it and make it more of a morality thing where it's like, "A man and woman have a baby."

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.

I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.

Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so by the mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses.

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

A three-year old was examining his testicles while taking a bath. 'Mom,' he asked,'are these my brains?' 'Not yet.' she replied.

Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

You didn't want to bring home anything but an A or a B. To my mom, a C was like an F.