Quotes About Education

Beware of a man of one book.

I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.

I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training

If a man's house is full of medicine bottles, we infer the man is an invalid. But if his house is full of books, we conclude he is intelligent.

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

Am I supposed to be a man? Am I supposed to say, 'It's okay, I don't mind, I don't mind'? Well, I mind! I mind big time! And you know what the worst part is? I never learned to read!

Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.

If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.

Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer.

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.