Quotes About Education

Learning was the only distinction to which she thought to aspire.

What good was this place, this college? What good was Anglo-Saxon, when one only learned it in order to answer examination questione, in order that one should have a higher commercial value later on? She was sick with this long service at the inner commercial shrine. Yet what else was there? Was life all this, and this only? Everywhere, every- thing was debased to the same service. Everything went to produce vulgar things, to encumber material life.

be the half-day at the Grammar

That's our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

I count it a mistake of our mistaken democracy, that every man who can read print is allowed to believe that he can read all that is printed. I count it a misfortune that serious books are exposed in the public market, like slaves exposed naked for sale. But there we are, since we live in an age of mistaken democracy, we must go through with it.

What good was this place, this college? What good was Anglo-Saxon, when one only learned it in order to answer examination questions, in order that one should have a higher commercial value later on? She was sick with this long service at the inner commercial shrine. Yet what else was there? Was life all this, and this only? Everywhere, everything was debased to the same service. Everything went to produce vulgar things, to encumber material life.

Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

i really like reading books

It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.

Bernard Shaw once remarked: 'If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

the great aim of education,' said Herbert Spencer, 'is not knowledge but action.

Education," said Dr. John G. Hibben, former president of Princeton University, "is the ability to meet life's situations.

Shaw once remarked: "If you teach a man anything, he will never learn." Shaw was right. Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Over three hundred years ago Galileo said:   You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

For "the great aim of education," said Herbert Spencer, "is not knowledge but action." And

People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves. And those people who think only of themselves, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, longtime president of Columbia University, said, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, said Dr. Butler, no matter how instructed they may be.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

Marking and underscoring a book makes it more interesting, and far easier to review rapidly.

gran objetivo de la educación -dijo Herbert Spencer no es el conocimiento, sino la acción.

Yet, during these broken and irregular periods, he had developed one of the most valuable assets any man can have, even from a university education: a love of knowledge and a thirst for learning.

I once spent almost two years writing a book on public speaking and yet I found I had to keep going back over it from time to time in order to remember what I had written in my own book. The rapidity with which we forget is astonishing.

No man was to be eulogized for what he did; or censured for what he did or did not do," because "all of us are the children of conditions, of circumstances, of environment , of education, of acquired habits and of heredity molding men as they are and will forever be.

most people go through college and learn to read Virgil and master the mysteries of calculus without ever discovering how their own minds function.