Quotes About Education

Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in mens clothes.

In school I was never the class clown, but more the class trapeze artist. I was always being suspended.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.

I never did very well in mathI could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

The school system Nursery School 3 to 6 years Primary School 6 to 11 years Middle School 11 to 14 years Academic Studies 14 to 18 years Technical Institute 14 to 18 years Teacher-Training College 14 to 18 years Arts Academy 14 to 18 years University 18 years and over

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children in modern society] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there, and they are taught and told what to believe; they are passive from the very beginning – and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told?

How could I get up there in public and act like I'm some representative of the class? I can't even go to college like the rest of them. I don't even know where I'm going to live. That's not right. That's not who the valedictorian is.

for the first time I start to actually imagine me sitting on concrete steps like this, or in a class reading lots of fat books and saying what I think.

I hear Mrs. Roble say, "You know, I've seen this happen before with the Muslim kids. I push those girls—they're so bright. Then one day they come in with a head scarf, and they say their marriage has been arranged and they're not going to college after all.

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it. And they have to work a lot longer and harder than more privileged people do.

Nos enseñaron desde niños cómo se forma un cuerpo sus órganos sus huesos sus funciones sus sitios pero nunca supimos de qué estaba hecha el alma

Un niño de mi clase dice que su abuela es una vieja de mierda. Yo le enseñé que en todo caso debe decir una anciana de mierda.

I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

The Greek excellence in mathematics was largely a direct consequence of their passion for knowledge for its own sake, rather than merely for practical purposes. A story has it that when a student who learned one geometrical proposition with Euclid asked, "But what do I gain from this?" Euclid told his slave to give the boy a coin, so that the student would see an actual profit.

Do you know, Carter, that I can actually write my      name in the dust on the table? Faith, Mum, that's more than I can do. Sure,      there's nothing like education, after all. —Punch

I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child. (ix)

A lot of children know absolutely nothing about guns other than what they see on T.V., and those are the wrong things.

Markaz Dirasat al-Adab al-'Arabii wa-Dar al-Huda 2001; 16al-Suyuti, al-Rasa'il al-'ashar, Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al- 'Ilmiya, 1409 AH/1989 CE, p. 54; 'Ali ibn Taj al-Din al-Sinjari, al-karam fii akhbar Makka wa'l-bayt wa-wulat