Quotes About Education

One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such because one has not wanted to defray the expenses of a good one.

I thought i had been educated well enough until i left college.

A gentleman need not know Latin but he should at least have forgotten it.

A one-book man is either a slow learner or an ill-equipped teacher.

Arrogance pedantry and dogmatism are the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Good teaching is l/4th preparation and 3/4ths theatre.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

If you educate a man you educate a person but if you educate a woman you educate a family.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me and I'll understand.

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.

When there are two PhD's in a developing country one is Head of State and the other is in exile.

The freshmen bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out so it accumulates through the years.

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.

By learning you will teach by teaching you will learn.

'Whom are you?' he asked for he had been to night school.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.

You can lead a man up to the university but you can't make him think.

If you think education is expensive - try ignorance.

It is a greater work to educate a child in the true and larger sense of the word than to rule a state.

Soon learnt soon forgotten.

Education n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.