Quotes About Education

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

The most favorable attitudes toward ESP were found in a survey of Canadian college students, of whom 80% reported a belief in psi.21 National surveys of the U.S. population have found that roughly 50% of the population are believers, including 67% of those who are college educated.22 Perhaps

Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.

While awareness of global governance problems is arguably rising, even most of the educated public is rather unaware of the detail of how global policies are actually carried out. Marginal

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power.

Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.

Life isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

How can well-educated, high-income people be so naive about money? Because being a well-educated, high-income earner does not automatically translate into financial independence. It takes planning and sacrificing.

The "some college," "four-year college graduate," and "no college" types who have high incomes often had a head start on many well-educated workers.

There are three things our eingeneering educators must do immediately in offering the curricula to their students: (1) Multidisciplinary courses (2) Good communication skills (3) Team work experiences.

History, by appraising. ..[the students] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.