Quotes About Education

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

But even after European medicine changed, medicine in the United States did not. In research and education especially, American medicine lagged far behind, and that made practice lag as well.

The nest of college-birds are three, / Law, Physic and Divinity; / And while these three remain combined, / They keep the world oppressed and blind / . . . Now is the time to be set free, / From priests' and Doctors' slavery.

Even normal services such as schools were in short supply. Of the twenty largest cities in America, Philadelphia, the city of Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania, spent less on education than all but one. In all of South Philadelphia, home to hundreds of thousands of Italians and Jews, there would be no high school until 1934.

As the Hopkins medical school was opening, American theological schools enjoyed endowments of $18 million, while medical school endowments totaled $500,000. The difference in financial support as well as educational systems largely explained why Europeans had achieved the bulk of medical advances.

At Stanford, he had experienced an epiphany: "I'm not really actually here to learn French, or whatever, I'm learning how to be able to learn anything, and then I can go forth and have a life. . . . I don't need the class." Learning was an end unto itself.

Learning how to learn on his own proved one of the most important lessons of his life.

Mike Brand had counseled his brother not to focus on selecting individual courses but rather to find the best professors. One of those he recommended was a charismatic professor of religion, Frederic Spiegelberg.

The purpose of school, Zimbardo notes, is to turn present-oriented little beasts into responsible future-oriented children.

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.

I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

Education is great ... but it's really my creativity that's taught me that I can be much more than what my education told me I am.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential.