Quotes About Education

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

I have always advised men to read

It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.

Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.

The world exists for the education of each man.

Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.

The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

I know so much about men because I went to night school.

I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.

The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves.