Quotes About Education

One can lead a child to knowledge but one cannot make him think.

Study it yourself. If I told you, you would not know; you simply would have been told.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes.

Library science was the foundation of all sciences.

Hendrick, I have explained these matters to you because it is useless to punish a man unless he knows why he is being punished.

When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too.

More depended on the student than on the school.

Oh, I'm not offended. But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stinkin' proud to use the title. I won't touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees. Call me Jubal.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me

Once can lead a child to knowledge but one cannot make him think.

Oh, I'm not offended. But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced flyfishing, I became too stinkin' proud to use the title. I won't touch watered whiskey and take no pride in watered-down degrees. Call me Jubal." "Oh. But the degree in medicine hasn't been watered down." "Time they called it something else, so as not to confuse it with playground supervisors.

This school is based on the idea that a man who can think correctly will automatically behave morally—or

Nine times out of ten, if a girl gets raped, it's partly her fault.

To prove that degrees, per se, are worthless. Often they are honorifics of true scientists or learned scholars or inspired teachers. Much more frequently they are false faces for overeducated jackasses.

But I could if I took the time and sweat to learn the language of electronics; it's not miraculous—just complex. Teleportation is simple, once you learn the language—it's the language that is difficult.

What's that got to do with it? Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

A doctorate is a union card to get a tenured job. It does not mean that the holder thereof is wise or learned.

There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. This be treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man's opinion is as good as another's.

An Ad-Hoc Inquiry Concerning the Optimization of the Infrastructure of Primary Educational Institutions at the Interface Between Administration and Instruction, with Special Attention to Group Dynamics Desiderata.

everything of any importance is founded on mathematics.

I knew that the stupidest students, the silliest professors, and the worst bull courses are concentrated in schools of education

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime: the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

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Dad would haul down a book and we'd look it up. Then he would try four or five more with other opinions. Dad doesn't hold with the idea that it-must-be-true-or-they-wouldn't-have-printed-it; he doesn't consider any opinion sacred—it shocked me the first time he took out a pen and changed something in one of my math books.