Quotes About Education

The greatest university is a collection of books.

Akan jadi apakah kita, bergantung pada apa yang kita baca setelah semua profesor menyelesaikan urusannya dengan kita

All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Ceea ce devenim depinde in mare masura de ce citim.

Of the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful and worthy are the things we call Books! –

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

In any event, Socrates' proof of prenatal immortality is that one of Meno's uneducated slave boys actually comes up with the Pythagorean theorem without ever having studied geometry! Therefore, he must be remembering it. You recall that theorem: in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Huh? We can barely remember that from tenth grade, let alone from before we were born.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

For a philosopher should not see in the eyes of the poor limitary creature calling himself a man of the world, and filled with the narrow and self-regarding prejudices of birth and education, but should look upon himself as a Catholic creature, and as standing in an equal relation to high and low - to educated and uneducated, to the guilty and the innocent.

What is different is I am giving the kids a chance to train every day. Not only once a day, but sometimes when they do not have school, we will try to do something in the morning too.

The one who knows much about anything knows far better than the uneducated how much he does not know about it.

When I was younger, acting, singing and dancing was what it was all about. That's really what kept me in school because I was really naughty otherwise.

I was sent to Naval School when I was young, and it didn't do me any good in any other form, but it made me get up in the morning.

For me, if I wasn't going to get a full scholarship to go to school, I was going to go to the Army or Navy so I could avoid debt.

And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

I went to the University of Maryland for a year and was considering maybe, you know, being a medical doctor but decided my other interest was maybe flying airplanes in the Navy and just kind of changed my mind and changed schools and changed majors and decided to focus a hundred percent on that.

I really did graduate at 14, and I go to college in the Los Angeles area near where I live.

My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.

I have always got my computer or phone nearby so that I can find out extra details about a certain subject.

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.

I don't think there's nearly enough interesting ways to do education online, particularly for younger children.