Quotes About Education

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough.... The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

In any event, if people want to believe in God, I have no problem with them. But if they want to tell me that God is a kind of truth or knowledge that I am ignorant of, I ask them how I can be more educated. They usually say, First you have to have faith. Then I realize their knowledge is personal and holds nothing for me, or for society. - Greg Graffin

Knowledge is of no use unless it is actually in your mind, so that it can be produced at a moment's notice.

Where power was perceived, power was given. For his entire life Conphas had been surrounded by tutors.

To be a teacher was to be a student anew, to relive the intoxication of insight, and to be a prophet, to sketch the world down to its very foundation—not simply to tease sight from blindness, but to demand that another see.

You understand little because to learn you must admit you know nothing.

To control the future requires the control of education and of the child. Hence, for Christians to tolerate statist education, or to allow their children to be trained thereby, means to renounce power in society, to renounce their children, and to deny Christ's Lordship over all of life.

All too many churchmen view the undisciplined & amoral products of statist education as evidences of the failure of these schools. On the contrary, they are evidences of their success.

For Dewey, the Great Community was the basic fact of history. The individual and the soul were invalid concepts, man was truly man, not as an individual, but as after Aristotle, in society and supremely in the State. Thus, for Dewey, true education mean not the development of the individual in terms of learning, but his socialization. Progressive education... educates the individual in terms of particular facts of the universe without reference to God, truth, or morality.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.

Are you ready to present your book reports?" Miss Shindling asked. The classroom erupted with sounds—chairs scraping, Trapper-Keepers being opened, papers being rustled, throats being cleared.

My school is very lucky. We have an Olympic-size pool.

Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively] Don't they teach you anything in your schools? Not about this . Pity. I suppose that's what comes of your main education flowing from Google.

I'm learning all the time. Well, you're a scholar.

There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom. A mere accumulation of information is not knowledge, and a treasure of knowledge is not in itself, wisdom.

Lives are short, but knowledge is eternal.

I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom.

Screw that, the questionn at hand is what's your major? Oded said. Because let me tell you right now, any answer other than World of Warcraft or Advanced Ninja Studies will not be accepted.

For a perversion of knowledge is surely worse than a lack of it

But the Library still held everything he'd ever wanted, too. All the knowledge in the world, right at his fingertips

You've been the least useless apprentice I've ever had.

Tota est scientia Knowledge is all

And knowledge is the purest form of power.

I am not the Library's child! I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom.