Quotes About Education

You think associatively on pot, so you can have real extraordinary thoughts. But the more education you have, the more you have to put together . . . the more wonderful connections there are to see in the universe.

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93]

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

What the critic as a teacher of language tries to teach is not an elegant accomplishment, but the means of conscious life. Literary education should lead not merely to the admiration of great literature, but to some possession of its power of utterance. The ultimate aim is an ethical and participating aim, not an aesthetic or contemplative one, even though the latter may be the means of achieving the former.

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.

You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than right for the wrong reasons.

And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

Can you spell everything? asked Milo admiringly. Just about, replied the bee with a hint of pride in his voice. You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided that—

but it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.

And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

Oh, don't worry about that, said the Mathemagician as he scooped up the pieces. We use the broken ones for fractions.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

Ali to je samo velika olovka, usprotivio se Uholaž i u nju kucnuo štapom za šetnju. To je istina, suglasio se Matemagi?ar, ali kad se jednom nau?iš njome služiti, onda nema kraja onom što možeš u?initi.

You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

I)t's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what you do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.

Words and numbers are of equal value, for, in the cloak of knowledge, one is warp and the other woof.

It's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.

it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.

The dumbing down of America is proceeding apace.

Tis the opinion of myself, Sanderson Pratt, who sets this down, that the educational system of the United States should be in the hands of the weather bureau. I can give you good reasons for it; and you can't tell me why our college professors shouldn't be transferred to the meteorological department.

Twenty-five years ago the school children used to chant their lessons. The manner of their delivery was a singsong recitative between the utterance of an Episcopal minister and the drone of a tired sawmill. I mean no disrespect. We must have lumber and sawdust.