Quotes About Education

The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.

Unfortunately, like, homework and school wasn't the thing that I was obsessing over. It was, you know, music and making music and how to like - and drum machines. And we met Rick Rubin, and Rick Rubin had a drum machine. So I would just cut school and go to his house - his dorm room.

There are always the kids who just love animals. Unfortunately, though, people have become afraid of the outdoors.

Education in Emergencies signifies that the right to education is being threatened by natural causes such as tsunamis, but also, unfortunately, by man-made causes.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom.

Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.

Every increase in knowledge requires an increase in wisdom

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

We gather knowledge faster than we gather wisdom.

The wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story of a child, and the life of a child can teach us as much as the life of a sage.

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.