Quotes About Education

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

A world in which people with learning difficulties have access to the resources they need to live happier, healthier, more secure and more meaningful lives.

There are growing buds in universities which will freshen the future.

Most poverty is a lack of opportunity.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity we should not distort it.

Humanity owes the child the best it has to give.

If humanity is to live in the future in a socially right way, humanity must educate its children in a socially right way.

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace.

The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.

I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no good for kids.

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.

Animal protection is education to the humanity.

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.

[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies.

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

Belonging to humanity is a great thing for us, and I think the schools can do it. So I think we can look after the quality of education on the school even as we expand the availability of schooling.