Quotes About Education

It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

Don't try to teach men how to do anything in public. They can learn in private; in public they have to know.

Why do men go to zoos?

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

The men who have had the most to give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

The Training which Makes Men Happiest in themselves ... also Makes Them Most Serviceable to Others

Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'

The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.

I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men.

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.