Quotes About Education

It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

I took biology two years in a row just to eat the specimens.

Our role is to encourage, not discourage, reading.

To me, the smarter you are, the more you want to learn - Ernie Accorsi

As he grew, what he lacked in formal education, he made up for through diligent, determined reading. The where, when, and how of reading mattered not to Abraham Lincoln, who said, "The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places ... Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other thing.

If you only read what you agree with, you'll never learn anything. - James D. Hodgson

Not only was he one of history's greatest leaders, Abraham Lincoln was one of history's most devoted readers. Doris Kearns Goodwin writes of Lincoln, "Books became his academy, his college. The printed word united his mind with the great minds of generations past.

Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.

I can't protect you from knowledge.

I have a degree in history, which is one of the reasons I'm an auto mechanic.

feeding grad students to the bears wasn't a good idea, might give them ideas.

I have a degree in history, which is one of the reasons I'm an auto mechanic.

If it weren't for his tendency to get bored with easy stuff, he'd never have hired me. Then I'd have had to take my liberal arts degree and gotten a job at McDonald's or Burger King like all the rest of the history majors.

Then I'd have had to take my liberal arts degree and gotten a job at McDonald's or Burger King like all the rest of the history majors.

Then I'd have had to take my liberal arts degree and gotten a job at McDonald's or Burger King like all the rest of the history majors. We worked companionably in silence for

She had no idea who the dagos were. Her racist vocabulary obviously needed work.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.

Seriously, if you really, truly don't understand basic terminology (which was at least half my problem with the adult-level "beginner" books), the children's section is the place to go.

Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar.

Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse. — Nigerian Proverb

Some people have not learned to know what their feelings mean. Some have been trained not to feel much. And some have been trained not to know that they have feelings.

I've often wondered what would happen if, in the interest of public service, advertising companies lent out their best copywriters for a year or so to team up with teachers in designing educational materials.