Quotes About Education

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance.

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Indeed, both the scholar and the student share the prosperity.

Both professor and student share in the pursuit of excellence and perfection.

Wisdom and intellect is every man's friend, ignorance and illiteracy are his enemies.

A Muslim will never get tired and bored of educating himself throughout his life.

Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.

In other words, the idea that there was, in 1980s America, more and more of a level playing field in housing, educational resources, and employment opportunities was a myth.

no matter whether the individual motivations and behaviour of ordinary white people were racist or not, all whites benefited from social structures and organizational patterns that continually disadvantaged blacks, while allowing whites to stay well ahead in living standards, including housing, health and life span, neighbourhood amenities and safety, educational facilities and achievement, level of employment, and income and wealth.

Thus an explanation has arisen—the 'culture of poverty' thesis—which has painted the African American community, especially, as suffering from a cultural deficit of single-parent families, low educational aspirations, laziness, and 'welfare dependency', and which, together or singly, explains the continuing disadvantaged position of African Americans in particular.

The Essentials of English, book of choice of the older boys at St. Faith's for spanking the younger boys with, leaving a particular broad-natured pain ever afterwards associated with grammar.

She thinks about the students she taught who graduate this week to all that debt, and now to a future in the past.

Books. Knowledge. Years of reading. All of which means? I know stuff.

Who needs a school homework assignment to be trustworthy? Sacha said.

the uneducated grow up to be prey!

How much schoolin' do you want?" he demanded, harshly. "If you please Uncle Jabez, all I can get," replied Ruth.