Quotes About Education

George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis.

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

Those who do not know history will forever remain children

Don't know much about history Don't know much biology.

If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to learn.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.

As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.

Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.

The only history that matters is the history we know.

Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.