Quotes About Education

My favourite definition of "Intellectual" is: "Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence."

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

if she be ignorant of the nature of flour, yeast, malt, and hops, what is she good for?

No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.

Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roamExcels a dunce that has been kept at home!

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much. Wisdom is humble that he knows not more.

Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces [in 1968]. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.

Gyan Shala (Hindi for "a school for knowledge or wisdom") offers the poor an extremely cheap and effective private school option by renting single classrooms in slums and employing local women from the informal sector as teachers.

The sleek, expensive girls I teach,Younger and pinker every year,Bloom gradually out of reach.

After his seven years of study, the young Muhammadan binds his turban upon a head almost as well filled with the things which appertain to these branches of knowledge as the young man raw from Oxford—he will talk as fluently about Socrates and Aristotle, Plato and Hippocrates, Galen and Avicenna; (alias Sokrat, Aristotalis, Alflatun, Bokrat, Jalinus and Bu Ali Sena);

Whatever the accurate figures, the event generated howls of righteous indignation for several generations among the British in India and 150 years later was still being taught in British schools as demonstrative of the essential barbarity of Indians and illustrative of why British rule was supposedly both necessary and justified.

Born 4th January 1935. Left school at 16 with one 'O' level in geography ( so I know my way round the world), but continued my education at the University of Real Life, than which, you will agree, there is none better.

He is to be educated because he is a man, and not because he is to make shoes, nails, and pins.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.

The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than "newness") and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity).

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.