Quotes About Education

The secret is not to avoid learning useless knowledge. It's to make use of whatever knowledge you have.

What was that education? Question everything, but keep your word. Doubt everything, but never give others a reason to doubt you.

All education is self-education," said Noxon. "And all self-education builds on the foundation provided by your teachers.

From you I can learn things that nobody knows.

I firmly believe that a good storyteller's education never ends, because to tell stories perfectly you have to know everything about everything. Naturally, none of us actually achieve such complete knowledge - but we should live as if we were trying to do so. You can't afford to close off any area of inquiry.

La Escuela de Batalla no nos ha creado, ya lo sabes. La Escuela de Batalla no crea nada. Solo destruye.

teach, I teach, but no one learns. You, too, have great promise, like so many students before you

What I have lived by is this: Whatever I need to know, and don't, I must learn. And if learning it fights against my natural inclinations, then it's all the more important that I learn it anyway.

You really are the stupidest smart kid in the world," said Mother.

Speakers for the dead apparently have an almost pathological reliance on the idea that people behave better when they know more.

his Calvinism would not outlast his undergraduate education, though its excision would be long and painful.

Nobody knows more than can be learned in a single lifetime

And that, said Bean, is why losing is a much more powerful teacher than winning.

One is never too old to be a student of the enemy. I have learned from the buggers. You will learn from me.

La ignorancia y la mentira no pueden salvar a nadie. El conocimiento lo hace.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.