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Quotes About Education

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
~ Alexander Pope
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
~ Alexander Pope
Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools,And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
~ Alexander Pope
What will a child learn sooner than a song?
~ Alexander Pope
A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
~ Alexander Pope
There is no study that is not capable of delighting us, after a little application to it.
~ Alexander Pope
Men must be taught as if you taught them not the things unknown, but the things forgotten.
~ Alexander Pope
By false learning is good sense defaced
~ Alexander Pope
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
~ Alexander Pope
Tak ucz ludzi, jak by? nie uczy? ich wcale. Lecz przypomina? rzeczy znane im doskonale.
~ Alexander Pope
A little learning is a dangerous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
~ Alexander Pope
A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.
~ Alexander Pope
A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.
~ Alexander Pope
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
~ Alexander Pope
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.
~ Alexander Pope
Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.
~ Alexander Skarsgard
Cehennem korkusuna, polis korkusuna, ceza korkusuna dayal? bir iyilik, iyilik say?lmaz — bu korkakl?ktan ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir. Ödül, övgü ya da cennet beklentisine ba?l? iyilik, rü?vetçili?e girer. Günümüz ahlâk? çocuklar? korkakla?t?rmaktad?r çünkü kendisi ya?amdan korkutmaktad?r. S?k?düzenden geçirilen ö?rencilerin 'iyili?i' asl?nda i?te budur.
~ Alexander Sutherland Neill
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
~ Alexander the Great
It is far more difficult to observe correctly than most men imagine; to behold is not necessarily to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much to be regretted that habits of exact observation are not cultivated in our schools; to this deficiency may be traced much of the fallacious reasoning, the false philosophy which prevails.
~ Alexander von Humboldt
I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.
~ Alexander Wang
It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that is so cool!
~ Alexandra Kosteniuk
Schoolchildren were asked to collect propaganda posters and caricatures 'for your race book and arrange them according to racial schemes'.
~ Alexandra Richie
If schools celebrated student scientists the same way they celebrate student athletes, more students would be encouraged to pursue the subject. Instead, science is considered nerdy because schools help students to paint it that way.
~ Alexandra Robbins
In 1994, the College Board changed the test's name from Scholastic Aptitude Test to the Scholastic Assessment Test. Now according to the College Board, the letters don't stand for anything anymore. Perhaps that itself is symbolic.
~ Alexandra Robbins