Quotes About Education

They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.

To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity.

The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.

We can only transform humanity and create a happier more compassionate world through education.

Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.

Humanity need not be taught in schools, it is a gift and skill one should master.

I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.

Wit is educated insolence.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.

In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence.

She was old too, when she went to school they didn't have history.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

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

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

Kids did really well in their A levels, how do we respond? 'A Levels are getting easier, in my day you had to do fifty questions in a minute, if you got one wrong, they killed your dad!

My parents said they had to make a lot of sacrifices to pay for my education... because they were both druids.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House.