Quotes About Education

Education has its problems. This includes making the wise wiser and the foolish more foolish.

La educación tiene sus problemas. Estos incluyen hacer más sabio al sabio y más tonto al tonto.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

Among some of the famous men educated by the Jesuits we find Bossuet, Corneille, Molière, Tasso, Fontenelle, Diderot, Voltaire, and Bourdaloue, himself a Jesuit.

TEACHER: Kevin, how do you spell crocodile? KEVIN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L. TEACHER: No, I'm sorry, that's wrong. KEVIN: It can't be. You asked me how I spell it!

GEOGRAPHY TEACHER: What state would you find Lincoln in? STUDENT: A state of extreme boredom, if he was in this class.

I would suggest that developing in every student the positive potential that can benefit the world has to be the primary purpose of education, rather than the effort to impart knowledge and skills.

We have been granted permission to use the resources of Earth in all their glorious abundance for our education and growth in life, and we have a responsibility to return them to their rightful place, as much as possible in their original condition.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

No such thing as a stupid question

I've learned a simple and obvious truth from my own education experience: We have to give every kid in America the access to public education that I received. We need to place public education at the top of our priorities and the center of our national

Japanese children were kept out of California classrooms as late as 1907 on the theory that they lacked the aptitude for higher learning.

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself —Chinese proverb

When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear —Zen proverb

If peace is what every government says it seeks, and peace is the yearning of every heart, why aren't we studying it and teaching it in schools?

I've been accused of teaching a one-sided course, that I don't expose students to the other side, except that my course is the other side—the one that students aren't getting in conventional history or political science courses that present violent militaristic solutions as rational and necessary.

Astronism is not to be explained so easily as others for its vastness and complexity is a topic of study, not skimming.

Fight not, learn instead.

The best shop is of course a shop of knowledge; a bookshop.

The day you close your mind to learning is the day you die.

The greatest mistake we humans make is thinking we know all there is to know. The truth is; we know nothing.

The keeper of the knowledge is the keeper of the power.