Quotes About Education

a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life.

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself.

There have always been literate ignoramuses who have read too widely and not well. The Greeks had a name for such a mixture of learning and folly which might be applied to the bookish but poorly read of all ages. They are all sophomores .

This book fills a much-needed gap.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 2 or 8. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this.

The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.

School motto's are not what they exactly produce! Our motto was education is wealth, but look how I am.

Compared with the Egyptians, the Greeks are childish mathematicians." - Plato

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Go to College, Stay in school, If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

We spend more time learning how to make a living than we do learning to make a life.

I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.

The family was serious about education; after dinner, Fred was known to issue volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica to his children and guests for a little light reading.

Reminded that the Commonwealth was already involved in pre-school and university education, Chifley replied: "That's different – they're for kids before they've got souls and after they've lost them.

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

Bilmek hayatta kalmaktir. [...] Unutmayin, ne kadar cok sey bilirseniz yasama sansiniz artar. Hem sonra ogrenmeyi bir sanat, bir yasama bicimi haline getirmeniz gerekir, bunun sirriysa, ogrenmenin ayni zamanda bir haz, bir zevk oldugunu anlamaktan gecer. Ogrenmenin hazzi olmadan insan tamamlanamaz. Bakin cevrenizdeki bircok insanin yarim kalmasi bu yuzdendir." - Moottah

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

All my pupils are the crme de la crme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.