Quotes About Education

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.

I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

I didn't actually figure out how to get guidance, so I just decided to go to school at University of Southern California because they sent me a glossy brochure.

The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

Books make up no small part of human happiness.

You can never learn anything that you did not already know

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.

happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.

It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

When your child is very young, you must protect him from doing harm to himself and others, then later by precept, explaining to him what is going to be for his eventual happiness.