Quotes About Education

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.

Vater unser, mach mir noch mit einem Wunder eine feine Bildung - das Ãœbrige kann ich ja selbst machen mit Schminke.

Father thou art in heaven, please make my inside so good and so fine that he can love me. I'm going to buy him a tie, because that's something I can do. Someone once told me that I have an almost masculine understanding of it. i guess there are situations where having a past is to your advantage. Heavenly Father, perform a miracle and give me an education--I can do the rest myself with make-up.

Padre nostro che sei nei cieli, concedimi una buona istruzione, fa' questo miracolo, al resto ci penso da sola con un po' di rimmel».

Free schools were an invention of the Devil or the Yankees, which amounted to practically the same thing.

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.

Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.

A taste of luxury is part of the education of any intelligent human being. It teaches him how unnecessary it is.

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centures since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

I fear my ignorance.

Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

People would ask him what a Gobelin was, why the Jacobins had betrayed Robespierre, how rayon was manufactured, what made a section caesarean. Grandfather had all the answers.

What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali asked. And Reb Zebulun replied: "They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them." I couldn't live without them." Naftali said.

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers...

The works of John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, and Karl Marx had been forbidden. Students' libraries and clubs had been closed; and informers had been planted in the lecture halls. Entry fees had been raised fivefold to bar academic education to children of poor parents.