Quotes About Education

Pr?m?rný u?itel vypráví. Dobrý u?itel vysv?tluje. Výborný u?itel ukazuje. Nejlepší u?itel inspiruje.

A little learning is dangerous, but downright ignorance is even more disastrous.

Everybody is ignorant. Only on different subjects.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

God save me from him who studies but one book.

Einstein was once quoted as saying that in the society of Australian aborigines, he would rightfully be regarded as intellectually deficient for not being able to track a wallaby or throw a boomerang. If the aborigine ever did get around to drafting an IQ test, all of western civilization would presumably flunk it... Testing and teaching materials must clearly take cognizance of cultural and class differences if the true potential of the individual child is to be recognized and realized.

Any increase in knowledge anywhere helps pave the way for an increase in knowledge everywhere.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.

The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable possession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Why don't they pass a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as Prohibition did, in five years we will have the smartest people on earth.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at 20 or at 80. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable, regardless of physical capacity.

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.

But what is more important in a library than anything else — than everything else — is the fact that it exists.

If you haven't owed a library fine at least once in your life, you're not a real reader.

Knowledge lives at the library, and the nice people there always let us take some home.

See'st thou our youth? and dost thou hear them plead? They long for knowledge, but no books to read Then found a Library, rich, choice and free. Sure all will join in such Philanthropy, And thus these youth much Knowledge will obtain And wiser be when future years they gain.

Librarians are generals in the war on ignorance.

Library fines are my favorite charitable donation.

When I got the library card, that was when my life began.

A library card is a credit card.

Linus: Just think, Charlie Brown… my own library card! Charlie Brown: I hope you make good use of it by taking out all the books you can read. Linus: I suppose that would be more practical... I was thinking of having it framed!

[T]here are few mental exercises better than learning great poetry or prose by heart.

Ethics and Logic should be the most generally studied, because all practise them whether they have studied them or not.