Quotes About Education

Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.

Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

He has a calsium deposit on the medulla oblongota of his brain, but he is a brilliant man. This man has a BA, an MA from Havard, and a PhD from Oxford. He's a brilliant man I tell you, Mean Gene.

Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity.

I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'

We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn't wicked.

No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

I would not educate Donald trump. He is a very educated man.