Quotes About Education

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

The only real downside to all of this was not to appear for another thirteen years. In the brave new, and very middle-class, alternative world, mainstream politics were rather neglected. By the time anyone realised, it was too late. The wallflowers, who had been left out of all the fun in the Sixties, got their own back during the 1980s by gaining control of the country and vandalising the health service, education, libraries and any other cultural institutions they could get their hands on.

The suggestion was put to us that we should become non-resident in the UK for one year so that we could earn some money and replenish the dwindling coffers, and provide some time for our accountants and tax specialists to salvage something from the wreckage. The whole experience cast an enormous cloud over us. We had always prided ourselves on being smart enough not to be caught out like this. We saw ourselves as educated, middle class, in control of everything. We had been utterly wrong.

You musn't neglect your education in favor of your studies.

Education does not promise success, but makes it easier.

The learned must educate the ignorant. Because, according to society, ignorance is never bliss. Except in retrospect. I look back upon my ignorance with the knowledge that I was much happier then than now. Consider this: children know precious little, but the profound ignorance comes from profound innocence. People really mean to say that innocence is bliss. And bliss is short-lived.

I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

I always wanted to be a teacher.

No one but her uncle knew that under Fursey's tutelage she could make her letters or that she understood Latin if it was spoken slowly-and even he seemed content to let her learn privately.

In a century where the media publish endless stupidities, the cultured man is defined not by what he knows but by what he ignores.

There is an illiteracy of the soul which no diploma cures.

The cultured man has the obligation to be intolerant.

Un diploma de dentista es respetable, pero uno de filósofo es grotesco.

Gebildet ist der Mensch, der die höchsten Ergebnisse des Geistes in physiologische Reflexe umformt.

The classical languages have educational value because they are safe from the vulgarity with which modern life corrupts languages in use.

An age is civilized if it does not reserve intelligence for professional work.

The most precise and shortest definition of a true civilization has been given by Trevelyan: A leisured class with large and learned libraries in their country seats.

Die Jahre der Jugend genügen in einer zivilisierten Gesellschaft, um die Sensibilität, die Intelligenz, die Seele zu erziehen. Heute ist dies durch den Einsatz eines ganzen Lebens kaum zu erreichen

To educate man is to impede the "free expression of his personality.

Istruire non è indicare soluzioni, ma rivelare problemi.

When we suspect the extent of the innate, we realize that pedagogy is the technique of what is secondary. We only learn what we were born to know.

To educate the soul consists in teaching it to transform its envy into admiration.

The cultural standard of an intelligent people sinks as its standard of living rises.

Înainte s? scrii, înva?? s? gânde?ti.