Quotes About Education

We live in an age of progress, announced Professor Wogglebug, pompously. It is easier to swallow knowledge than to acquire it laboriously from books. Is it not so, my friends? Some

a good heart is, I believe, much more desirable than education or brains.

I have heard, my dear friend, that a person can become over-educated; and although I have a high respect for brains, no matter how they may be arranged or classified, I begin to suspect that yours are slightly tangled. In any event, I must beg you to restrain your superior education while in our society.

A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

those as knows the least have a habit of thinkin' they know all there is to know, while them as knows the most admits what a turr'ble big world this is. It's the knowing ones that realize one lifetime ain't long enough to git more'n a few dips o' the oars of knowledge

Education is a thing to be proud of.

Can't you give me brains?" asked the Scarecrow. "You don't need them. You are learning something every day. A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

I think this story-writing business is the foolishest yet, scoffed Marilla. You'll get a pack of nonsense into your heads and waste time that should be put to your lessons. Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

In geometry Anne met her Waterloo. "It's perfectly awful stuff, Marilla," she groaned. "I'm sure I'll never be able to make heads or tail of it. There is not scope for imagination in it at all.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books.

Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.