Quotes About Education

If you feed a man a meal, you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food, you feed him for a lifetime.

Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.

All men begin their learning with Homer.

Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

It's important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections.

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books.

At Dartmouth, we make you into a man by allowing you to remain a boy.

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.

We need to educate people about the reality of Islam, the logics of Islam. I am sure every free man in this world would fight the ideology of Islam.

any event largely organized by elementary school teachers was likely to come off extremely well from a logistical and crowd-control standpoint.

In your Primer you have a resource that will make you highly educated, but it will never make you intelligent. That comes from life. Your life up to this point has given you all the experience you need to be intelligent, but you have to think about those experiences. If you don't think about them, you'll be psychologically unwell. If you do think about them, you will become not merely educated but intelligent.

Human nature doesn't change, Randy. Education is hopeless. The most educated people in the world can turn into Aztecs or Nazis just like that." He snaps his fingers.

Men wanted to be strong. One way to be strong was to be knowledgeable. In so many areas, it was not possible to be knowledgeable without getting a Ph.D. and doing a postdoc. Guns and hunting provided an out for men who wanted to be know-it-alls but who couldn't afford to spend the first three decades of their lives getting up to speed on quantum mechanics or oncology.

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