Quotes About Education

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,--the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making.

When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims 'all Men are endowed by their Creator.'

The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.

The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.

A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.

If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.