Quotes About Education

Discover the World give us more Education to Ourselves.

An educated person would know that holding a degree will not make you entitled to a better job nor a better salary than someone who has no degree.

By educating the young, we are building a liberating potential force indirectly.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

That's all you really hope for from a book – that it's going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way. I believe poetry can get kids reading.

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley walking down the streets of Marysville, I'm going to punch him right in the face.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.

Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.

High School is the place where poetry goes to die.

I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.