Quotes About Education

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

An unread book does nobody any good

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

People (or students) do not have shortcomings, only uniquenesses. The goal of a good teacher is to turn these uniquenesses into advantages.

Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

Education is the key. With a really good education, you have a much broader view of the world. Well-educated people can seek help for themselves. They can help others.

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.

Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.

You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he created him, and that black child will create his own affirmative action.

Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

In school, I wasn't a very good student - I was very irresponsible and never did the studying but always liked to get the laugh.

I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.