Quotes About Education

The number of unemployed citizens "without a high school diploma increased by 18.7 percent while the number of unemployed foreign-born persons decreased by 24.8 percent."37 Despite the supposed economic recovery "following the Great Recession, employers continued to favor illegal alien labor despite millions of less-educated Americans who were unemployed.

Chuck Todd is not alone among journalists with thin academic records and limited experiential backgrounds. Then again, propagandizing does not require exceptional knowledge or talent.

Despite the enormous and unparalleled costs, America's public schools are performing poorly and many are failing.

Reading is an apprenticeship to writing

The first step in writing is reading.

Read everything, absolutely everything. There's no such thing as a book that offers nothing.

Reading is the never-ending apprenticeship for writing ~ Mark Rubinstein

The greatest act of self-education I've ever undertaken has been to become a writer.

Humor is more than entertainment or joke telling—it's a powerful social lubricant that eases and enriches communication, interpersonal relations, and education. Humor is a universal speech opener because it immediately earns the speaker respectful attention. It's psychologically impossible to hate someone with whom you've laughed. When we laugh, we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh. —Robert Orben

I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.

Yet Yogi Bhajan describes mastery of this practice as arising from teaching it: "If you want to learn something," he says, "read it. If you want to know something, write it. If you want to MASTER something, Teach it!" (Bhajan).

Abraham Lincoln, a predecessor of Barack Obama in both the White House and the Illinois state legislature, had eighteen months of formal education and became a soldier, surveyor, postmaster, rail-splitter, tavern keeper, and self-taught prairie lawyer. Obama went to Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School, and became a "community organizer." I'm not sure that's progress--and it's certainly not "sustainable.

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

There is no more fertile ground for revolution than the educated unemployed

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908

Everything has its limit--iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - 1906

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.

Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.