Quotes About Education

tenían ese gran respeto por la educación que tan a menudo muestran quienes carecen de ella...

I never lose. I either win or I learn.

Gaur was an example of a man without a BA who seemed infinitely better educated than the fellows who left Fort Hare with glittering degrees. Not only was he more knowledgeable, he was bolder and more confident. Although I intended to finish my degree and enter law school, I learned from Gaur that a degree was not in itself a guarantee of leadership and that it meant nothing unless one went out into the community to prove oneself.

Bildung ist der Motor persönlicher Entwicklung. Durch Bildung wird aus der Tochter eines Bauers einen Ärztin, aus dem Sohn eines Mienenarbeiters deren Leiter, aus dem Kind eines Landarbeiter Präsident einer marken Nation. Was wir aus dem machen was uns mitgegeben wird, unterscheidet letztendlich erst einen Menschen vom anderen.

Then you've got Georgetown, and I really just like everything about them. When I went down there with my mom, it really opened my eyes to what they were all about. I have to factor in what a school like that can do for me, even away from being a basketball player.

Criminals were a lazy bunch. If they weren't, they'd get their MBAs and rob with impunity.

Dead strangers evoked a smorgasbord of the lesser emotions and served as marvelous educational tools, warnings, and veiled threats. When an acquaintance was killed, it was closer to home; one knew some of the threads that tied the deceased to a common humanity. Without enough real connection to grieve, one was left in an uncomfortable place between curiosity and embarrassment.

Education is not accomplished by putting something into man; its purpose is to draw out of man the wisdom which is latent within him. May the reader call Bartholomew to discipleship, for only as this quality is raised to discipleship will you have the capacity to conceive ideas that will lift you beyond the limitations of man.

Should a survey be made to determine the reason why so many seemingly educated men and women fail in their after-college years or should it be made to determine the reason for the different earning powers of the masses, there would be no doubt but that imagination played the important part. Such a survey would show that it is imagination which makes one a leader while the lack of it makes one a follower.

This is a world of educated darkness where you and I—infinite beings as we are—entered for a purpose, and only a very small part of the immortal Self entered. That's what we see here. You are an infinite Being, for you are God. Everyone is God but here on earth, we are just a spark of the immensity of our own fiery Being.

What we must work for is not the development of the will, but the education of the imagination and the steadying of attention.

En lugar de desarrollar la imaginación del hombre, nuestro sistema educativo muchas veces lo sofoca tratando poner en la mente del hombre la sabiduría que busca. Le obliga a memorizar una cantidad de libros que, muy pronto, son refutados por libros posteriores. La educación no se logra poniendo algo en el hombre; su propósito es sacar del hombre la sabiduría que está latente en él.

The purpose of primary education is the development of your weak characteristics; the purpose of university education, the development of your strong.

One of the things I think about is if you were to take a history book and pull the bullshit out of it, find the truth, snatch out all the bullshit that's in there, then you're going to wind up with two or three pages.

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Hoy a los niños se les enseña a cerrar los ojos y a bloquear los oídos para que nunca vean las necesidades del pueblo ni oigan sus gemidos. El que solía oír, hoy se ha convertido en sordo. El resultado de esos colegios son aquellos de quienes se dice: «¡Lástima de esta generación, porque tienen ojos y no pueden ver, y tienen oídos y no pueden oír!». Porque se les ha enseñado a ver y oír un solo mundo.

Berlin of 1884 was effected through the sword and the bullet. But the night of the sword and the bullet was followed by the morning of the chalk and the blackboard. The physical violence of the battlefield was followed by the psychological violence of the classroom. But where the former was visibly brutal, the latter was visibly gentle … The bullet was the means of physical subjugation. Language was the means of the spiritual subjugation.

Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against another.

What makes a civilization real to its inhabitants, in the end, is not just the splendid edifices at it centre, nor even the smooth functioning of the institutions they house. At its core, a civilization is the texts that are taught in its schools, learned by its students and recollected in times of tribulation.

intellectual diversity is the form of diversity that seems to be least valued in universities

The great thinkers of the eighteenth century were also pioneering tourists

There's this road you're expected to be on. You're supposed to do your GCSEs and then your A levels and then you go to uni and then you get a proper job. I can see my whole life in front of me like a great slab of tarmac. What if I don't want it?

Closing the schools can harm children who are neglected or unsafe at home and who benefit from the caring eyes of a teacher.

Regarding the bill, Nicholas Alahverdian said "The policy of this bill is safety of children at every cost. The aim of this bill is adequate education and housing for children in the care of the state. People may ask at what cost. We say at any cost, for the life of a child in a system with a $600M budget deserves at the very least, food, schooling, and stable shelter, and if possible, a family life. We must never give up, and I certainly won't.