Quotes About Education

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.

When I was your age, television was called books.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Experience is a dear teacher, and only fools will learn from no other.

Those who can do, those who can't teach.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?

Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex.

In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards

Smart phones, smart cars, smart televisions... when are they going to start making smart people?

Teacher: Why are you talking during my lesson? Student: Why are you teaching during my conversation?

Dear Teacher. Please stop make us sleepy, we have no bed in class. Sincerely, students.

Don't do drugs kids. There's a time and place for everything. It's called college.

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.