Quotes About Education

Give me a few more years so that I am studying at fifty, and surely I may avoid major errors.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Adev?rata cunoa?tere este a-?i ?ti dimensiunea ignoran?ei.

you cannot open a book without learning something

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Learning without thinking is wasted effort; thinking without learning is dangerous

The Master said, Study as though you could never catch up, [and if you did,] you would still be fearful of losing it.

lesson about knowledge? When you know a thing, maintain that you know it; and when you do not, acknowledge your ignorance. This is characteristic of knowledge.

An educated woman is a stupid woman

The Master said, "I do not open the way for students who are not driven with eagerness; I do not supply a vocabulary for students who are not trying desperately to find the language for their ideas. If on showing students one corner they do not come back to me with the other three, I will not repeat myself.

The Master said, "To go into battle with people who have not been properly trained is to forsake them.

book is written in question-and-answer style with a minimum of professional jargon.

It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said.

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.

Teaching writing is a hustle.

They sell that shit to schoolkids. It's worse than that. How's that? Schoolkids buy it.

The sheriff shook his head. Dope, he said. Dope. They sell that shit to school kids. It's worse than that. How's that? School kids buy it.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever

Don't be ignorant your whole life.

E' una questione personale. E' proprio questo l'effetto dell'istruzione. Rende il mondo intero qualcosa di personale.

White      There's nothing to follow. It's all right. The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didnt know that. I thought they were indestructible. They werent. Black      And that's what sent you off the edge of the platform. It wasnt nothin personal. White It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

I've studied much and learned little.