Quotes About Education

I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations

I love to learn but I do not want to be taught

I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honour, and Greek as a treat.

imagination without deep and full knowledge is a snare

And then perhaps in the evenings a real love of learning would come to those who were worthy—and why try to stuff it into those who are not?—and knowledge and thought would open the 'magic casements' of the mind.

The status of George Washington is honored in the heart of London. His civic and military virtues play their part in the education of our youth, just in the same way as the eloquence of Burke and Chatham have influenced the American mind.

The Christian Church became the sole sanctuary of learning and knowledge.

Unteachable from infancy to tomb—There is the first and main characteristic of mankind.

Moim uczniom mówiÄ™: pamiÄ™tajcie, ?e nie jestem jednym z waszych zacnych, patentowanych i gwarantowanych profesorów. Ze mnÄ… nigdy nic nie wiadomo. W ka?dej chwili mogÄ™ powiedzie? gÅ'upstwo, albo skÅ'ama? - w ogóle wystrychn?? na dudka. Ze mnÄ… nie ma ?adnej gwarancji. Jestem draÅ" - lubiÄ™ siÄ™ zabawi? - i gwi?d?? - gwi?d?? - gwi?d??... na was i na moje nauczanie.

Quién de nosotros sabría admirar a los grandes genios, si en la escuela no se le hubiese puesto bien en la cabeza que son grandes genios?

Nauczyciele, wychowawcy, kierownicy duchowi? W istocie, oni nauczyli czytelnika polskiego tej prawdy o literaturze, ?e ona jest czymÅ› w rodzaju szkolnych wypracowaÅ", pisanych po to aby belfer mógÅ' postawi? stopieÅ" [...] SÄ… to mistrzowie trywializacji, artyÅ›ci w przemienianiu ostrego ?ycia w nudnÄ… papkÄ™, gdzie wszystko jest mnie wiÄ™cej równie mierne i niewa?ne.

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

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

Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like.

My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.

By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.

Stacey was sharp and educated, and I recommended a book to her. She claims it was Kafka, and that sounds like the kind of fun guy I was.

She taught me philosophy and I developed a crush on it. We read together and hired a student from Columbia to come in once a week and discuss a different great work. But the arguments we had over free will and monads, while heated, were never as combatative as the ones we had over our marriage. I knew I was in trouble when, in one philosophical discussion, Harlene proved I didn't exist. I

If you want to learn something, just steal it.