Quotes About Education

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Poutine serait-il féru de philosophie ? Allons donc ! L'homme préfère l'histoire, la littérature, et surtout le sport. Il n'est pas un intellectuel. Il adore raconter sa jeunesse de voyou et d'espion plutôt que d'évoquer ses études à la faculté de droit de Saint-Pétersbourg.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know

The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know, unless you happen to be an especially gifted student, in which case it prepares you for a career teaching the academic study of literature—it is, in other words, a rather farcical system that exists solely to replicate itself and yet manages to fail more than 95 percent of the time.

The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know, unless you happen to be an especially gifted student, in which case it prepares you for a career teaching the academic study of literature—it is, in other words, a rather farcical system that exists solely to replicate itself and yet manages to fail more than 95 percent of the time. Still, it's harmless, and can even have a certain marginal value.

If you control the children, you control the future.

Cécile lo dijo con un extraño orgullo, a pesar de que a todas luces no sabía nada de esos escritores, y es curioso el orgullo que sienten los padres por los estudios de sus hijos, incluso y sobre todo cuando no entienden nada de ellos, es un hermoso sentimiento humano, pensó Paul.

Humanistisen alan yliopisto-opinnot eivät tunnetusti johda mihinkään, paitsi lahjakkaimmilla opiskelijoilla humanistisen alan yliopistonopettajan uralle. Meillä on toisin sanoen hassunkurinen järjestelmä, jonka ainoa tavoite on omaneuvoinen lisääntyminen ja jossa jätteen osuus on yli yhdeksänkymmentäviisi prosenttia.

Een universitaire studie in de letteren leidt zoals iedereen weet nergens toe, behalve, voor de meest getalenteerde studenten, tot een universitaire onderwijscarrière in de letteren. [...]Zo'n studie is echter niet schadelijk en kan zelfs een marginaal nut hebben.

en la mayoría de las ocasiones la transmisión del saber es imposible, la diversidad de las inteligencias es extrema y que nada puede suprimir ni siquiera atenuar esa desigualdad fundamental

It will all be much easier for the conservatives, who are in even worse shape, and who never cared about education—they hardly even know what education is.

The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know, unless you happen to be an especially gifted student, in which case it prepares you for a career teaching the academic study of literature—it

It only confirmed what I'd always thought - that for all their education university professors can't even imagine political developments having any effect on their careers : they consider themselves untouchable.

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.

It's almost as if religion needs innocence, lack of education, and ignorance in order to thrive!

Depuis des années, le grand formateur des consciences n'est plus l'école, elle aussi vendue au marché et aux idéologues, mais l'écran – la télévision, le net, le tweet.

Ancora Imparo (Yet I am learning)

Michelangelo Buonarroti

I am still learning." -Michelangelo late in his life.

eight other states already have what are known as "no promo homo" laws, which, like the original "don't say gay" bill, restrict to varying degrees what educators can say about homosexuality.