Quotes About Education

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984

The end of all education should surely be service to others.

There is no such thing as a problem breed. However, there is no shortage of 'problem owners'....

But just because a person goes to Harvard doesn't mean he's balanced when he graduates, and just because a dog knows how to obey doesn't mean he's balanced, either.

Sono libri, – disse lui, – leggici dentro fin che puoi. Sarai sempre un tapino se non leggi nei libri.

Per capire le cose bisogna studiare, non le sciocchezze che insegnavano a scuola a noialtri, ma com'è che si legge il giornale, com'è fatto un mestiere, chi comanda nel mondo. Si dovrebbe studiare per saper fare a meno di quelli che studiano. Per non farsi fregare da loro.

If you want to really learn something, try teaching it to someone else.

Education requires both a teacher and a student. Many of us are too often reluctant to be a student.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

There are better ways to teach a child compassion.

The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.

Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

I'm a B+ student of life.

I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.

There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience - the final end of human progress.

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist. (From the short story, "Charity".)

Do you read, Mr. Quinn?" he asked. "Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist.