Quotes About Education

The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.

Teenagers go to college to be with their boyfriends and girlfriends they go because they can't think of anything else to do they go because their parents want them to and sometimes because their parents don't want them to they go to find themselves, or to find a husband, or to get away from home, and sometimes even to find out about the world in which they live.

When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.

The fact that so many young men and women enter the teaching profession shows that there are still some people willing to scrape along on comparatively little money for the pleasure of following an occupation in which they delight.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

A writer who lives long enough becomes an academic subject and almost qualified to teach it himself. –

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

Also, from the more serious discussions that took place at these meetings, Kehoe is likely to have derived many of his lifelong views on civic matters. One issue in particular would come to dominate his thinking to ultimately catastrophic effect: the question of the disposition of county taxes to pay for the public education system.15

In the years immediately following the end of the Great War, approximately fifty thousand one-room schools were replaced with these "fine upstanding structures—schools that in every way compare[d] with big-city institutions." By 1922, there were roughly "12,000 of this new type of school in the United States." Indiana alone had more than one thousand; Ohio, Iowa, and Minnesota more than nine hundred, four hundred, and three hundred, respectively.6

Those on the other side of the debate argued forcefully that consolidated schools—with their advanced curriculums, professionally trained teachers, and classes extending through high school—were the only means of affording farm children the kind of educational opportunities available to their urban counterparts. In the end, after two years of bitter struggle, the proponents of consolidation prevailed in Bath when the township voted to fund a new school.10

Though his formal education had ended after seventh grade, he grew up to be a voracious consumer of dime detective novels, tabloid newspapers, and the tracts of various occult and pseudoscientific beliefs—phrenology, astronomy, palmistry, spiritualism.

A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles ... an amateur promoter, a glad-hander, embryo Rotarian, caf-society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind.

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

I was the kid who made a beeline for the library when the last bell rang, but also harder, because how do you define yourself against such an identity? On what grounds? With what confidence?

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

The library never closed.

Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

Education does more than prepare us for careers and expand our minds. It enlarges our world—the number of people with whom we can connect. Because education covers so much ground, it helps us find more of the ground that is common to others whom we meet. The more you learn, the more people you can engage. All education is relevant, all education is practical, all education helps us grow. Keep reading, keep listening, keep learning.

Intolerance, it seems to me, is taught and is not inherent in man's character. It is taught at a young age by overprotective elders, by unfortunate examples, and by poor-mouthing differences rather than exulting in the excitement of their presence.