Quotes About Education

Educating bold and ambitious children from cradle to career stands as a clear and foundational goal for Georgia.

You can learn being off the pitch. If you are sitting in the stands, you can see how the whole team plays.

When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'

I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.

I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.

I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.