Quotes About Education

Where did you go to school?" Piers inquired. "Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish.

Tajna uspješnog vaspitanja je u poštivanju u?enika

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.

Por lo general paga tributo a otra manía, insólita y funesta en la mujer: y es su malhadada afición a leer toda clase de libros, a aprender cosas raras, a estudiar a troche y moche, convirtiéndose en marisabidilla, lo más odioso y antipático del mundo.

La educación de la mujer no puede llamarse tal educación, sino doma, pues se propone por fin la obediencia, la pasividad y la sumisión.

Austen suggests that a gentleman is made, not born - and made only through a process of painful self-reflection and discovery.

The inspector, though well educated, had been raised in very modest circumstances and therefore treated his staff as human beings and not instruments put on this earth to do his bidding.

You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into...it is as much as you can expect from a poor man's daughter.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

And once, Hareton, I came upon a secret stock in your room... some Latin and Greek, and some tales and poetry... But I've most of them written on my brain and printed in my heart, and you cannot deprive me of those!

In the first place, he had by that time lost the benefit of his early education: continual hard work, begun soon and concluded late, had extinguished any curiosity he once possessed in pursuit of knowledge, and any love for books or learning. His childhood's sense of superiority

a sound English education corrected in a great measure her French defects;

All true histories contain instruction;

Ognuno di noi ha dovuto cominciare, incespicando e barcollando sulla soglia, e se i nostri insegnanti ci avessero scherniti anziché aiutarci, continueremmo ancora oggi a incespicare e a barcollare.

Education is the biggest threat to authoritarianism.

Me acuerdo de ser educado, que es cuando la gente tiene miedo de que los otros se enfaden.

Kartais mokytojai išmoko daugiau, negu patys supranta.

I don't want to go to university. I don't like unity and I hate verses. I just love the choruses of songs.

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

To-night I am to be shot because I had once acquired an education.

How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance

To inculcate Catholicism in the mind of the child until it is nine years of age is to ruin it forever for any other idea

Experience has come to be considered the best school of life. The man or woman who does not learn some vital lesson in that school is looked upon as a dunce indeed.