Quotes About Education

The good thing about the studium is the that you learn from your teachers, true, but even more from your fellows, especially those older than you, when they tell you what they have read, and you discover that the world must be full of wondrous things and to know them all - since a lifetime will not be a enough for you to travel through the whole world - you can only read all the books.

There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.

Los perdedores, como los autodidactas, tienen siempre conocimientos más vastos que los ganadores. Si quieres ganar tienes que saber una cosa sola y no perder tiempo en sabértelas todas; el placer de la erudición está reservado a los perdedores. Cuanto más sabe uno, es que peor le han ido las cosas.

The young no longer want to study anything, learning is in decline, the whole world walks on its head, blind men lead others equally blind and cause them to plunge into the abyss, birds leave the nest before they can fly, the jackass plays the lyre, oxen dance.

To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. Instead of being told honestly what humans are and what bears are.

The library is testimony to truth and to error

Culture isn't knowing when Napoleon died. Culture means knowing how I can find out in two minutes.

Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.

Humbësit ashtu si autodidaktët kanë gjithnjë njohuri më të mëdha se fitimtarët. Nëse dëshiron të jesh fitimtar, duhet të dish vetëm një gjë e të mos humbasësh kohën për të mësuar gjithçka. Kënaqësia e erudicionit është vetëm për humbësit. Sa më shumë të dish, aq më keq mund të të shkojnë gjërat.

To be intensely educated about the horror of sin and then to be conquered by it. I tell myself that it must be prohibition that kindles fantasy

I perdenti, come gli autodidatti, hanno sempre conoscenze più vaste dei vincenti, se vuoi vincere devi sapere una cosa sola e non perdere tempo a saperle tutte, il piacere dell'erudizione è riservato ai perdenti.

If a student works rigorously, no topic is truly foolish, and the student can draw useful conclusions even from a remote or peripheral topic.

Rather, they prove that students can make something out of their education.

European identity, it seems, is only perceived by educated people. And that is sad, but it is a start.

Accordingly, the choice between a literature review and a research thesis is linked to the student's ability and maturity. And regrettably, it is often linked to financial factors, because a working student certainly has less time and energy to dedicate to long hours of research and trips to foreign research institutes or libraries, and often lacks money for the purchase of rare and expensive books and other resources.

Minek olyan könyvet írni, amiért börtön járhat, ha egyszer azok, akik könyveket olvasnak, úgyis eleve republikánusok, a diktátor támogatói pedig írástudatlan parasztok, akiknek úgy pottyant ölébe Isten kegyelmébÅ'l a választójog?

And is a library, then, an instrument not for distributing the truth but for delaying its appearance?

of knowledge is for monks.

Se avessi la risposta a tutte le domande, insegnerei Teologia a Parigi.

Estudio. —¿Va a la universidad o estudia? —Aunque le parezca extraño, una cosa no está reñida con la otra.

En mi época, quienes sabían alemán ya no se licenciaban. Se pasaban el resto de su vida sabiendo alemán. Creo que hoy en día sucede lo mismo con el chino. —Yo lo conozco poco, por eso hago mi tesis.

But often the treasures of learning must be defended, not against the simple but, rather, against other learned men.

sá»± h?c h?i không ch? bao g?m hi?u bi?t Ä'i?u th?y ph?i hay có th? làm, mà còn bao g?m c? sá»± hi?u bi?t Ä'i?u th?y s? có kh? n?ng làm nhÆ°ng có l? không nên.

Os perdedores, assim como os autodidatas, sempre têm conhecimentos mais vastos que os vencedores, e quem quiser vencer deverá saber uma única coisa e não perder tempo sabendo todas, o prazer da erudição é reservado aos perdedores. Quanto mais coisas uma pessoa sabe, menos coisas deram certo para ela.