Quotes About Education

education is not the way out of the poverty trap. A high education level is no guarantee of high productivity. The truth of the matter is that regardless of institutional education level, workers around the world can be adequately trained on the job for high productivity.

The road to medical knowledge is through the pathological museum and not through an apothecary's shop.

Cheap matter offered they to boyish wit

It costs nothing to learn from other people's experience.

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.

At that time, according to the conventional wisdom, girls didn't have to study; they had to learn a trade. Boys could go to high school. Girls got married, so it was a waste to spend a lot of money on them. They did have to know about a lot of things, though.

FRANK: Do you know Yeats? RITA: The wine lodge? FRANK: No, WB Yeats, the poet. RITA: No. FRANK: Well, in his poem 'The Wild Swans At Coole',Yeats rhymes the word "swan" with the word "stone". You see? That's an example of assonance. RITA: Yeah, means getting the rhyme wrong.

It's what we do Rita; we pluck birds from the sky and nail them down to learn how they fly.

I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

The Yale president must be a Yale man. Not too far to the right, too far to the left or a middle-of-the-roader. Ready to give the ultimate word on every subject under the sun from how to handle the Russians to why undergraduates riot in the spring. Profound with a wit that bubbles up and brims over in a cascade of brilliance. You may have guessed who the leading candidate is, but there is a question about him Is God a Yale man

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Among the many benefits of Socratic Method is that it causes students to reach their own insights and express them in their own words.

Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations . . . The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

I know that bein a idiot an all, I ain't sposed to have no philosophy of my own, but maybe it's just because nobody never took the time to talk to me bout it.

The year that Hitler came into power the prestigious Oxford Union, a student debating society, overwhelmingly approved a motion stating that "this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country," and within a short period similar resolutions were adopted by most of England's other colleges and universities. When

Stalin's opinion on the subject boiled down to this: "Education is a dangerous weapon, whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands, and at whom it is aimed.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Spoonfeeding in the long run teaches you nothing but the shape of the spoon .

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.