Quotes About Education

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

Man by Nature desires to know.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.