Quotes About Education

Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.

Knowledge is essential to freedom.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

Know something about something. Don't just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours.

In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.

"Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow."

There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.

You can seek advice, learn about the options and make choices that are right for you. Knowledge is power.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

What flying teaches you is to overcome fear with knowledge.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

Knowledge is our ultimate good.