Quotes About Education

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

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Education about gender and peace is important. Educational strategies to promote peace must consider all relations of dominance.

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher's pet, know-it-all type.

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.

Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

The student is infinitely more important than the subject matter.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.

No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.

There's more philosophy in jiu-jitsu mats than in any Ivy League school in America.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.