Quotes About Education

For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up to ten IQ (Intelligence Quotient) points.

Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.

There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.

Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.

Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.

We need to teach our youth American values, kindness, honesty,respect.

Knowledge is provided but only to those who need to know

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.

The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.