Quotes About Education

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

Reading is not optional.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

It [further education] is most essential,otherwise I would not have educated my sons. I learnt the hard way.Maybe if I had some education my success and growth would have been quicker.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

Education doesn't just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

The early years were more about learning than about acting. I had to carry on my father's work, which was a big challenge.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

The two basic processes of education are knowing and valuing.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.

Customer complaints are the schoolbooks from which we learn.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.