Quotes About Education

I began to develop a firm conviction that most efforts to teach people things were wasted. All they needed was to go off some place quiet and read.

I began to develop a firm conviction that most efforts to teach people things were wasted. All they needed was to go off some place quiet and read. Around

you can't understand how wine is made simply by drinking lots of it.

education is a process through which truth is not introduced into the mind from without, but is "led out" from within.

The forms of mathematics, the harmonies of music, the motions of the planets, and the gods of the mysteries were all essentially related for Pythagoreans, and the meaning of that relation was revealed in an education that culminated in the human soul's assimilation to the world soul, and thence to the divine creative mind of the universe.

It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...

At the age of twelve, before I had had one full year of formal schooling, I had a conception of life that no experience would ever erase, a predilection for what was real that no argument could ever gainsay, a sense of the world that was mine and mine alone, a notion as to what life meant that no education could ever alter, a conviction that the meaning of living came only when one was struggling to wring a meaning out of meaningless suffering.

Even though Mr. Dalton gave millions of dollars for Negro education, he would rent houses to Negroes only in this prescribed area, this corner of the city tumbling down from rot. In a sullen way Bigger was conscious of this. Yes; he would send the kidnap note. He would jar them out of their senses. When

was building up in me a dream which the entire educational system of the South had been rigged to stifle. I was feeling the very thing that the state of Mississippi had spent millions

She'll have to learn the symbolism of the revolution," somebody said. "But why can't Communism speak a language she understands?" I asked.

How am I ever going to know all the stuff I need to know? I mean, I need to learn everything. " "Tonight?" Etienne kept a perfectly straight face. "I'm not sure I'm up to it.

Conservatives felt victimized by a sort of radicalism that, because it graced Middle American classrooms, did not seem radical to most Americans at all.

Knowledge of any value can't be given. It must be sought and earned

Oh, why does college have to happen to perfectly good people?

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.

Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn't realize that "test" is normally a bad thing.

Could be worse, I told myself. I could be studying cheese demons.

P.S. You'll have to meet with Dan's principal when you get back. He got in trouble for doing ninja moves in class. Don't worry. This happens all the time.

Knowledge isn't always good for you.

I Need to Learn Many, Many More Cusswords in Sign Language

One learns by doing

Something comes cheap, it ain't worth much. That's true for knowledge especially.

Vitellius would've given Percy an hour-long lecture on the subject, probably with a PowerPoint presentation.

provides a handy and interesting passage to the Holocaust memorial