Quotes About Education

worth his PhD should have a

Science and education are part of what turned magic from the acceptable into the condemned, then into the dismissed.

anything worth anything can be found in books

Well yes. People do teach at Yale. It's highly recommended, given the students.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. —Aristotle

you can't fix stupid.' It may be true. But ignorance can be educated.

It was at 'The Little Lodge' I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced … Mrs Everest produced a book called Reading without Tears. It certainly did not justify its title in my case … [When] the Governess was due to arrive, I did what so many oppressed peoples have done in similar circumstances: I took to the woods. I

Rhea survived an extended visit to the room housing Lord Nelson's cufflinks, while I learned to my delight that even mere mortals could partake of the Covers, the most basic sources for most Royal Navy warship designs. It was Alan who taught me that the Covers were not enough, that I should go to the PRO, too.

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!" —RON CARLSON

Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.

Ignorance is not bliss. That platitude is totally wrong. You will not be intellectually happier if you know fewer things. Learning should be a primary goal of living. But what if ignorance feels better—not psychologically, but physically? That would explain a lot of human incongruities.

Teaching history to eighth graders is like being a tour guide for people who hate their vacation.

It is crazy," said the nervous little man I'd followed up the street. "That's the only thing you learn in law school that's useful: Laws are crazy on purpose. Everything is negotiable. If you make a law complicated enough, you can apply it any way you want. You just need to make sure it's so complicated that no normal person can understand it, unless they went to law school.

I'm sure I could have read the entire four-thousand-page plot summarized in four hundred words on Wikipedia, or I could simply walk into any high school and ask a few questions of the first kid I find who isn't smoking crystal meth.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Some people still think knowledge is power.

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn't know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

With every lecture, you're forced to look again at every choice you've made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these years, you see how little you have to work with, how limited your life and education have been. How scant was your courage and curiosity. Not to mention your expectations.

We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done...

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

We thought all this teach­ing was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid.

My father never went to college so it was really important I go to college. After college, I called him long distance and said, now what? My dad didn't know.