Quotes About Education

Men have educated us. But not explained you. Describe us as a sex, was her challenge. Sphinxes without secrets.

Like all poetical natures he [Christ] loved ignorant people. He knew that in the soul of one who is ignorant there is always room for a great idea. But he could not stand stupid people, especially those who are made stupid by education: people who are full of opinions not one of which they even understand...

The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.

Untruthful! My nephew Algernon? Impossible! He is an Oxonian.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

In my time, of course, we were taught not to understand anything. That was the old system, and wonderfully interesting it was. I assure you that the amount of things I and my poor dear sister were taught not to understand was quite extraordinary.

Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.  If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. 

Oh, women have become so highly educated, Jane, that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages. They apparently are getting remarkably rare.

Wisdom should be freely available to all men without smart-alecky impediments

1663 Reverend John Eliot publishes the New Testament in the Massachusetts language, with the help of Indian translators and printers. 1775 The U.S. Continental Congress appropriates five hundred dollars to establish Dartmouth College in New Hampshire for the education of Indian children. 1778–1871 The U.S. enters into over 370 treaties with various American Indian nations. More than one hundred include specific provisions for educational facilities.

It's right to learn, even from the enemy.

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

Fas est ab hoste doceri.

the march of civilisation has given the modern girl a vocabulary and an ability to use it which her grandmother never had

Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah

In my ten years of teaching I've noticed that teachers tend to have a bad habit of talking to themselves. I hypothesize that this is because we talk for a living, and we feel safe speaking our feelings aloud. Or it could be that most of us, especially the high school teacher variety, are just weird as shit.

Yeah, I got the instructions straight from Seoras. That and a bunch of smart-ass comments about my education being sadly lacking and something about not knowing my arse from my ear or my elbow, and also something about me being a fanny, and I don't know what the hell that means. Fanny? Like a girl's name? I don't think so . . .

Jeesh, who knew teaching was so hard?" "Every real teacher in the world knows that

Segregation breeds ignorance, and ignorance breeds fear.

Every day you seem to know less and less about more and more

He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.

there was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a fly that had fallen into an ink-pot, and subsequently taken a little brisk exercise on a sheet of foolscap by way of restoring the circulation.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.

Why does the professor teach the geography of death? For que ensena el profesor la geografia de la muerte?