Quotes About Education

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.

The advancement of knowledge must be translated into increasing health and education for the children.

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

What's the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?

The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.

I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

Knowledge is almost annoying.

When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.

It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

Instead of being the 'font of all knowledge,' teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at any time.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.