Quotes About Education

educated in the 'liberal arts' (literally 'the intellectual pursuits suited to the free')

I no longer think, as I once naively did, that we have much to learn directly from the Romans – or, for that matter, from the ancient Greeks, or from any other ancient civilisation.

The bottom line is that it is politically naïve (as well as unfair) for a government to underfund the state education system and to take little effective action on social justice, and then to blame 'leading universities' for not righting the wrongs they have perpetuated.

received a classical education

First one is astonished at the things one learns with comparative ease. Then one is appalled by the things one doesn't know.

Kids absorbed more than most parents realized.

and France, that fancy education you're so proud of.

To be involved with books is to live at the heart of light.

Where classical and medieval rhetorical pragmatism diverges from modern, I think, is in assigning a crucial role to a notion of common memory, accessed by an individual through education, which acts to "complete" uninformed individual experience.

I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.

While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

As the brains of colored women expanded, their hearts began to grow. No sooner had the heads of a favored few been filled with knowledge than their hearts yearned to dispense blessings to the less fortunate of their race.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

He who can does - he who cannot, teaches.

A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Today's family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

Love is a better teacher than duty.