Quotes About Education

While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.

the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.

Knowledge increases responsibility.

The college was run by a man called Mr. Carver whose lifelong passions were Esperanto and Pitman's shorthand, the latter more useful than the former.

Her éducation sexuelle (it was easier to think of it as something French) was woefully riddled with lacunae.

he wanted a son so he could teach him all the things he knew, as well as how to learn all the things he didn´t know. he couldn´t teach his daughter anything, she knew more than he did already.

Sylvie's knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, "the sign that one has acquired one's learning from novels, rather than an education," according to Sylvie.

You have the hey to the library, he said. Only be careful what you read.

A great reader makes a great writer

READ. You have no business wanting to be a writer unless you are a reader. You should read fantasies and essays, biographies and poetry, fables and fairy tales. Read, read, read, read, read.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

people who could read. All

You seem to have an uncommon knowledge of young people. May I ask if you are, or have been, a teacher? Oh no! Mrs Carey remarked with a smile, I am just a mother- that's all!

What good would learning be if we concentrated on what we already knew? It is only by learning those things that come to us with difficulty that we truly gain wisdom.

Too many students, both graduate and undergraduate, think that the aim of education is to memorize settled answers to someone else's questions. It is not. It is to learn to find your own answers to your own questions. To do that, you must learn to wonder about things, to let them puzzle you--particularly things that seem most commonplace.

Why didn't they warn us at school? I'm sure if some teacher had said, Oh and by the way, it feels like someone sandpapering your cervix, they needn't have bothered with all the AIDS warnings and morality stuff.

You can't explain a degree to a dog

I believe...that education is not only the most important societal problem but the most interesting.

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Everyone was literate as a matter of course. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that. It was there to read, and we read.

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

They were always nice to Jess when he went over, but then they would suddenly begin talking about French politics or string quartets (which he at first thought was a square box made out of string), or how to save the timber wolves or redwoods or singing whales, and he was scared to open his mouth and show once and for all how dumb he was.

Civilization as well as education takes a downward spiral when it ceases to ask What is truth? and concerns itself primarily with what is measurable.

The basic task of education is the care and feeding of the imagination.