Quotes About Education

Educate the heart. Let us have good men.

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men's lusts, but cannot change their hearts.

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Educated men are so impressive.

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.

It's better to build boys than mend men.

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.