Quotes About Education

I was an elementary school teacher.

La suerte de las instituciones libres, el porvenir de la democracia y de la libertad serán siempre inseguros mientras la masas populares permanezcan en la ignorancia y atraso.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

No man ever became wise by chance.

We learn not in the school, but in life.

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.

A weekday edition of the New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in 17th century England. —RICHARD SAUL WURMAN

Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.

It is by the press we educate the public mind and link the people of most distant parts together in bonds of fraternity and comradeship. We can keep track of the work and accomplishments of our comrades in no other way, except by the medium of paper.

a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society

The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

The first years of my life are of no imprtance. At the age of nine, I was packed off to a preparatory school in the South of England, and for the next four years led the usual life of a preparatory-school boy. I indulged in midnight feasts and was periodically beaten.

happy those who learn wisdom at another's expense!

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

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More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

La gente puede estar en desacuerdo sobre la cuestión de si todos deberían estudiar economía en serio. Pero una cosa es segura. Un hombre que habla o escribe públicamente sobre la oposición entre el capitalismo y el socialismo sin haberse familiarizado completamente con todo lo que la economía tiene que decir sobre estos temas es un charlatán irresponsable.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

No matter how educated you are, no matter how irrational it seems, you will follow a glimmer of hope. The National Socialist German Workers Party, it was that ray of light. Nothing else was working to fix Germany

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.