Quotes About Education

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Nobue confundía las cosas: la inteligencia no podía medirse por las notas que uno consiguiera en la escuela. Que una persona sacara buenas notas no lo describía como un ser humano decente.

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.

As a child who grew up in a grassy field, enjoying little formal education, I know virtually nothing about literary theories and have had to rely solely upon my own experiences and intuitive understanding of the world to write.

La participación estudiantil, para mí, es el motor de la transformación y de la democratización de la universidad.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

The ink of a scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Apabila kamu berpelajaran kamu akan menjadi kaya. Kamu boleh menolong diri sendiri dan orang lain dan paling penting, dengan pelajaran, kamu akan lebih mengenali dan memahami dunia.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

It might seem odd that in cities teetering at the edge of the abyss young people still go to class—in this case an evening class on corporate identity and product branding—but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.

Las universidades más prestigiosas del mundo deben ahora competir con rivales de todas partes.

Ah! What a fine thing it is to know something!

Par ma foi ! il y a plus de quarante ans que je dis de la prose sans que j'en susse rien, et je vous suis le plus obligé du monde de m'avoir appris cela. »

Un sot savant est sot plus qu'un sot ignorant.

Aspire to the knowledge which is in the family, and feel the sweet charms which the love of study instils into peoples hearts. Far from being a submissive slave to the laws of men, wed yourself to Philosophy, sister, which elevates us above the whole human race, and invests reason with sovereign sway, subjecting to her laws the animal part, of which the gross appetite places us on a level with brutes.

Si vous songez à nourrir votre esprit, / C'est de viande bien creuse, à ce que chacun dit.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Ah, there are no longer any children!

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

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Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that.

Exhausted, bored, and disgusted by nannies, she engaged a governess who would begin my education and at the same time keep an eye on the nursery maid who was to be in charge of Hubert's more menial four-year-old necessities.