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Quotes About Education

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.
~ Peter McWilliams
You can't learn less.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
~ Robert M. Hutchins
I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.
~ Alasdair Gray
The day we stop learning is the day we die.
~ Michael Scott, The Warlock
BE A STUDENT BY STAYING OPEN AND WILLING TO LEARN FROM EVERYONE AND ANYONE.
~ Wayne Dyer
Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.
~ Will Rogers
There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything. They give up.
~ William Glasser
The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.
~ Ayn Rand
Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.
~ B. C. Forbes
That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.
~ Bill Gates
What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
~ George Eliot
Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.
~ Gilbert Highet
I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.
~ John Adams
The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
~ Paul Wellstone
For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.
~ Philip Pullman
There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned
~ Roberto Calasso
Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
~ Tryon Edwards
If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.
~ Unknown
We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.
~ Philip Dormer Stanhope
Never curse yourself by limiting your students.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Michael Jordan and Magic and myself, all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar