Quotes About Education

Maybe in a few generations, we'll see studies that indicate that babies who sleep with their parents have fewer ear infections, do better in school, and don't engage in pseudo-science when they grow up.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

The bookish theoric.

That unlettered small-knowing soul.

An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractic'd;Happy in this, she is not yet so oldBut she may learn.

All his faults observ'd,Set in a notebook, learn'd, and conn'd by rote.

I am slow of study.

Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,You would say it hath been all in all his study.

You two are book-men.

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

I learn more from books than from people

Over and over again, while I was in the law school, I was astonished at how eagerly many of my peers surrendered to this regimen of professionalistic conditioning, often squelching their own most intelligent opinions or creative impulses in order to conform or to appear to be conforming.

Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average citizen should be content with their humble role in life.

Moscow State University."4 MGU was to the USSR what Harvard is to the United States—except that in the Soviet Union there was almost nothing else, no Yale, Princeton, or Stanford, no Ivy League, no equally distinguished state universities, no elite liberal arts colleges. Moscow the city was itself unique:

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home.

to lift a man by education from one social stratum to another is to expose him to a terrible temptation—the temptation to despise his own people.

Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. ... The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role.

Ninety-nine (students) out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.

There were no sex classes. No friendship classes. No classes on how to navigate a bureaucracy, build an organization, raise money, create a database, buy a house, love a child, spot a scam, talk someone out of suicide, or figure out what was important to me. Not knowing how to do these things is what messes people up in life, not whether they know algebra or can analyze literature.

Although building science has been taught in schools of architecture for quite some time, the knowledge and understanding it encompasses are still not part of students' and architects' cognitive framework and design intuition.

A teacher must read. How can a teacher justify not reading? A teacher must love books. You people are making a tragic mistake in your school leadership by placing people who do not read into positions of authority. Cag the alien in "Them" William W. Johnstone

One of the crucial traits of real leaders in a democracy is the ability to help people become better informed so that society can make better choices.