Quotes About Education

The forces that run in American politics in our age are many and varied; they run in strange ways in our times of general education--they run in the meeting of white and black; in the nagging, daily concern for war and peace; in automation and unemployment. Yet one man must make them all clear enough for American people to vote and express their desire. He is the President.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

To educate a man in mind, and not morals is to educate a menace to society.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Books are the ammunition of life.

I am no advocate of senseless and excessive cramming in studies, but a boy should work, and should work hard, at his lessons -- in the first place, for the sake of what he will learn, and in the next place, for the sake of the effect upon his own character of resolutely settling down to learn it. Shiftlessness, slackness, indifference in studying, are almost certain to mean inability to get on in other walks of life.

in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it ought to count in the effect on his fellow men.

Father is strength at home, strength in government and strength overseas. Mother represents upbringing, education, the spread of civilization. Children are the lower classes, the lower races, to be brought to maturity and then set free

To educate a person without teaching ethics is to create a menace to society.

Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.

That was a good mark in Latin, and I am pleased with your steady improvement in it.

I am a part of everything I have read

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.

Winter-born children may end up being bigger and more academically inclined than those born in summer.

The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.

But virtually all aspects of underperformance—lower standardized test scores, lower college grades, lower graduation rates—persist among students from the African-American middle class. This situation forces on us an uncomfortable recognition: that beyond class, something racial is depressing the academic performance of these students.

The visible, in-your-face manifestations of oppression have been mostly eliminated. But you scarcely can find a Black student who cannot recall or give you a litany of instances when he or she was automatically assumed to be intellectually incompetent.

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Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.