Quotes About Education

How did he do it? First of all, with the help of an outstanding teacher and librarian named Alcuin of York, he collected books and had them copied. People don't always realise that only three or four antique manuscripts of the Latin authors are still in existence: our whole knowledge of ancient literature is due to the collecting and copying that began under Charlemagne, and almost any classical text that survived until the eighth century has survived till today.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.

I definitely believe in the power of education. I believe the more people know, the more they are able to do what they can.

Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.

Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.

An educated person is a person who has so developed the faculties of their mind that they can acquire anything they want

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.

Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an - has a purchasing power of 20 billion dollars. Now, and he's educated.

To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis.

Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.

Ignorant power is a bane!