Quotes About Education

Timeo hominem unius libri. 'I fear the man of one book.' It is attributed to Thomas Aquinas.

Maybe it's old-fashioned, but I'm opposed to sneakers without laces. Digital watches and pocket calculators, too. Gizmos that make life easier and dull our minds. Besides being unable to read or write, today's kids have trouble telling time, multiplying nine time seven, and tying their shoes

It's very hard to teach anything to a young man who knows everything.

He calls the resulting phenomenon 'capitalist realism', defined as the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it … a pervasive atmosphere conditioning not only the production of culture but also the regulation of work and education, and acting as a kind of invisible barrier constraining action.11

Education is a place where we ask, 'Did you get the answers right?' as opposed to, 'What did you learn?

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

If softball leagues treated players as delicately as teachers do students, there'd be a rule about not striking out. After three strikes, they'd bring out a tee, or maybe the coach would go up there, take the bat out of the kid's hands, and hit it for him. We'd tell ourselves we were protecting their fragile psyches, when in reality we'd be sending a clear message: You can't do it, so I'll do it for you.

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.

Your level of intelligence is not only a measure of what you have learned, but also a measure of how well you can unlearn and re-learn!

It is the mark of an educated man to be able to evaluate a thought without accepting it. ARISTOTLE

Quien no conoce su historia está condenado a repetir sus errores.

Children only know what you teach them.

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

I would say that an understanding of man's intrinsic needs, and of the necessity to search for a climate in which those needs could be realized, is fundamental to the education of the designer.

I think war might be God's way of teaching us geography.

Ursula believes that it was her habit of reading these cuttings that gave her a head start with her education.

Louis thought he would be all for a back-to-the-basics drive in education: a teacher, an olive tree, a bit of midday wine (the Greeks had watered theirs down to keep their heads lucid), and, last but not least, six or seven eager and receptive youths seated at one's feet.

There was always something sly about any act of education. Eve had learned that in the garden.

It was a failure of pedagogical nerve, she reminded herself, to give up on a student.

There must have been a time, before Internet porn, when there wasn't a script. Nowadays, everybody knows exactly how sex is supposed to go.

Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

When I look back on all the crap I learned in high schoolIt's a wonder I can think at all.