Quotes About Education

If you can read this, thank a teacher.

Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that cannibalism, wife-swapping and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior

When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?

It takes a long time to educate a community and it can't be done by spellbinders, moneybags, hypnotizers or magicians or Aladdin's lamp. Character is what matters on a paper.

We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

You can't fix education until you fix the community, education is not a building but a lifestyle and an environment.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Education is the most effective tool of freedom fighters.

The greatest tool for a possible and lasting freedom is EDUCATION.

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.

Freedom involves a knowledge of choices. This alone is reason enough to get an education.

The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill.

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free

People fear what they don't understand: Change, Death, 4th grade math word problems. . .

Fathers should teach their sons how to earn money because mothers teach their daughters how to spend it.