Quotes About Education

Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.

If great lecture is theatre, the future of learning is games.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

I hope I'm always learning something.

I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

I'm a nerd; I enjoy educating myself and learning things.

Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.

I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

There's a cure for aging that no one talks about. It's called learning.

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

There's so much to learn and so much of it not worth learning.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.