Quotes About Education

UNIVERSITY... In the great American universities men are ranked as follows: 1. Seducers; 2. Fullbacks; 3. Boozefighters; 4. Pitchers and Catchers; 5. Poker players; 6. Scholars...

If you have a college degree you can be absolutely sure of one thing — you have a college degree.

I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that?

For, truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen...

Despise school and remain a fool.

Jails and state prisons are the complement of schools: so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Nothing is as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated on.

There is no such thing as complete education, and I hope we have heard the last of the girl who is going to Boston to complete her education.

He is an educated man in the best sense of the word — mindful always that there is no such thing as complete education. We are always going to school, and success consists in striving eternally, but never arriving.

There's only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.

Nothing says high school English paper quite like Times New Roman.

The study of history is the playground of patriotism, and we may easily imagine the difficulties of Boards of Education in finding books of history which will be true to fact and will also give no offence to the varied elements of the population of the United States.

What's right got to do with it? he demanded back. You see all those books. He moved his hand over the array of volumes on the walls of his tiny office. All my reading and studying of them has taught me that law is one thing and right is another thing. Ask any lawyer. You go to Sunday-school to learn what is right. But you go to those books to learn . . . law.

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When you report to people every week about the condition of the company, you establish credibility. When you get them to write the information down, you teach. Education comes by repetition.

there is no security in ignorance.

I was a precocious child, and I resolved to read everything I could get my hands on, in order to encapsulate the whole of human knowledge. At the time the project seemed less impractical than it does today. I did as best I could and by the time I was ten or elven had read what I suspect was equivalent to a college education.

Informing you is a pleasure, since you are quick to learn.

But knowledge creates a craving for further knowledge. Where is the harm in knowledge?

importance of constant learning as the key to being a successful ruler.

People development should be a daily event, integrated into every aspect of your regular goings-on.

The democracy of the intellect comes from the printed book…

The United States now ranks twentieth out of twenty-seven OECD nations in the share of young people expected to finish high school.50

Once without peer, the United States has fallen to nineteenth in college completion in the OECD, and the gap in completion between higher-income and lower-income students has widened.56 Older Americans are the most educated in the world. Younger Americans, not even close.