Quotes About Education

The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.

The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal and no liberal education which is not technical.

John Milton called his school Christ College 'a stony-hearted stepmother'. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

The Jews have always been students and their greatest study is themselves.

Whenever I'm asked what college I attended I'm tempted to reply Thornton Wilder'.

Let the schools teach the nobility of labour and the beauty of human service: but the superstitions of ages past? Never!

He couldn't get into Harvard even if he had the dean's wife at gunpoint.

My husband managed to cram four years of college into five.

One little six-year-old took home a note saying he need not come to school since he was "too stupid to learn." That boy was Thomas Edison.

She's an honor student. She's always saying "Yes Your Honor. No Your Honor."

Bumper sticker: Driver carries no cash - he has a son in college.

A kindergarten teacher is a woman who knows how to make little things count.

We didn't feel so good when we took our son to college and saw a sign on the liquor store - Back to School Sale.

"Do you think your boy will forget all he learned in college?" "I hope so. He can't make a living drinking."

Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.

Boy handing over his report card: Of course I seem stupid to my teachers . . . they're all college graduates.

Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.

Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.