Quotes About Education

I am convinced that one can buy in Harrods of London a kit that allows an enterprising Englishman to create a British school anywhere in the third world. It comes with black robes, preprinted report cards for Michaelmas, Lent, and Easter terms, as well as hymnals, Prefect Badges, and a syllabus. Assembly required.

Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est!

One thing I know, I love to learn. I love literature. With these books I can sail the seven seas, chase a white whale . . .

Literacy alters patterns of life that have gone undisturbed for generations.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

I read and talked into the microphone and was gracious to the local rich, the English faculty and the college president, and the students with their clear skin and shining eyes and inviting innocence, like a blank surface one wishes to scribble obscenities on.

People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

I don't know anything about computers.

My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

we employ so many of our early years, under the rod, to acquire, what it is not expected we should retain beyond the threshold of the school;

An employee made a mistake that cost the company $10 million, he walked into the office of Tom Watson, the C.E.O., expecting to get fired. "Fire you?" Mr. Watson asked. "I just spent $10 million educating you.

After all, the purpose of learning isn't to affirm our beliefs; it's to evolve our beliefs.

I'm still struggling to accept that Pluto may not be a planet.

The purpose of learning isn't to affirm our beliefs; it's to evolve our beliefs

The mark of a lifelong learner is recognizing that you can learn something from everyone you meet. Knowledge is best sought from experts. Wisdom can come from anywhere.

Leaders who don't have time to read are leaders who don't make time to learn.

Certainly a rope and pulley would have worked best. But not everybody around here went to Kim Il Sung University.

history teacher allows him to write his reports graphically. (San Francisco!)

In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

Taki ukaz, zabraniaj?cy uczy? si?, nie ma przek?adu w dziejach i jest oryginalnym rosyjskim wymys?em.

Oni wyszukuj? przyczyny, By uniwersytety znie??, Krzykn??, ?e ucznie jakobiny, I wasz? m?odzie? zje??.

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.

Leave us alone without books and we shall be lost and in confusion at once.

College graduates spend 16 years gaining skills that will help them command a higher salary, yet little or no time is spent helping them save, invest and grow their money." – Vince Shorb –