Quotes About Education

Learning professionals need to be thinking about creating learning experiences rather than learning content

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

I tell you and you forget. I show you and you remember. I involve you and you understand.

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

You can teach to a wall, but when you help someone learn, you have to get involved with the whole person.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others... No one's education is ever complete.

A watched child never learns.

The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

Given a choice of weapons with you sir, I should choose grammar.

Disaster comes only because of ignorance.

I like things that are educational and educational. I like things that are inspirational.

Your children get only one childhood.

When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.

"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old.

You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.