Quotes About Education

Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one

Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.

A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.

In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."

Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

We pass through elementary school, high school, and maybe college, and in one sense every diploma is an award for developing a more sophisticated ignorance. Education reinforces the habit of seeing the world through a certain lens. We

Every diploma is an award for developing a more sophisticated ignorance.

Never give up on learning because what you put up there in your brain," he indicated my head with his index finger, "the Communists won't ever be able to take away from you.