Quotes About Education

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

My mom and dad taught me nothing but ABCs.

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

I taught myself how to be a speaker on Google. I just Googled 'how to be a motivational speaker.'

Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only - gold.

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.

For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught.

It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'

The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.

You've got to be taught to hate and fear.

Coach Clune has been a great person to me, he taught me a lot, linebacker-wise.

I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston.

When I was in Taiwan, I was taught in school that Taiwan is part of China.