Quotes About Education

The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in history that people can enjoy the vote even if they have no education.

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it's just a few idiots. Isn't. It's the country.

I'm a golfer not a history major.

History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

To study history is to study literature.

It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

Natural history is not about producing fables.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices.

In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.

History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.

I think nerdy stuff is sexy. I like to watch the History Channel and learn about the universe, quantum physics and stuff like that.

I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.