Quotes About Education

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Flying from the United States to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.

I live near a remedial school. There is a sign that says, slow... children. That can't be good for their self esteem. But look of course on the positive side, they can't read it.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

It's funny because I went to a predominantly white school, but for some reason they always picked the musicals that were supposed to be done by totally black casts.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

Learn the lick, but learn FROM the lick.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. This is true, they proved this one. The word dyslexia was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.

Classes teaching you how to breathe. I'm 32, I think I've got the hang of it.

I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.