Quotes About Education

If everyone was educated to the highest standard possible. We would all be equal." "We can't all be aristocrats. Who would do all the work?

If you're looking for family entertainment, don't study history or prehistory.

women are obtaining undergraduate degrees at a far higher rate than men, and women are earning professional and doctorate degrees at a rate greater or nearly equal to that of men, but they are still vastly underrepresented in top leadership positions.

One did not have to be a Jesuit to recognize that to control the schools was to control the future.

Much as they feared democracy, they determined to shape it. Their motto became "Let us educate our new masters".

Do you think that when Barack Obama was a young boy in kindergarten, do think that sometimes he made mistakes?

asking myself from time to time if it might be possible to teach English in such a way that people would stop killing each other

I've always enjoyed cleaning. Even though they tried to teach us laziness in school.

Roman language, Latin, is the foundation of not just Italian, but also of French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. Latin also left a deep impression on non-Latin languages, such as English. Even after Latin fell out of everyday use, it remained the unifying language of learning, particularly medicine and science.

He's a cocky SOB. He knew the Nick Adams Stories. Probably a frustrated English major who graduated from college qualified to drive a cab.

I realized that as a thinking person his advantage lay precisely in his lack of formal education. Nobody told him what to think, and thus he was free to think clearly.

Everything still revolves around memorization and repetition, the old cornerstones of Chinese education.

Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education.

hope to do in the pages that follow is to explain first of all how I, gently brought up in a loving home and diligently instructed by conscientious teachers, should have come to reject so completely what they said. I had some good reasons for refusing some of it. My mistake was to dispense with it all, indiscriminately. I hope to show that one of the things I was schooled in was not, in fact, religion, but a strange and vulnerable counterfeit of it—a counterfeit

Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?

Proper education is a fundamentally conservative activity, based on the assumption that a body of knowledge exists, is in the hands of the adult and educated, and can be passed on in measurable ways, by disciplined learning reinforced with authority.

no learner can afford to be dependent on the teacher for everything that needs to be noticed, so teachers have to teach children to look for possibilities.

In our unconsciousness we take credit where no credit is due, oblivious to the real source of everything we pretend is ours—the sacred origin not just of religion but also of everything else, of science and technology, education and law, of medicine, logic, architecture, ordinary daily life, the cry of longing, the excruciating ache of the awakening love for wisdom.

When your children ask you, ëWhat does this service mean to you?í

In the third year of his reign, Jehoshaphat sent his officials Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah to teach in the cities of Judah,

consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.

To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,

through knowledge its rooms are filled with every precious and beautiful treasure.

Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, “I cannot read.”