Quotes About Education

The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that 'if English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me.

My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.

I think if I had to put a finger on what I consider a good education, a good radical education, it wouldn't be anything about methods or techniques. It would be loving people first.

Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.

Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is how I got a good job in journalism.

A good education is another name for happiness.

The best way to understanding is a few good examples.

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

Good information is the best medicine.

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.

A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It's knowing what you don't know; the skills of critical thought.

An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer

The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Who knows what we'll need to learn thirty years from now? We do know that we will need to be good at searching for information, collating it, and figuring out whether it is right or wrong.

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.