Quotes About Education

I would like to share something that is being done extremely well by Bill Gates through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation is only going to address areas which are seen by Bill or Melinda as ills of the world. The foundation has no perpetuity.

Books for children get into schools. Committed teachers use books like mine alongside films, non-fiction and fiction to help children investigate and understand the Holocaust, persecution and genocide.

Schools reward their students for a combination of intelligence, perseverance, and hard work - in the classroom and on the playing fields. But these metrics don't help kids understand that great grades are not a pass for a great life.

Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

Financial Aid Office (FAO) administrators are scrambling to educate students on repaying loans, but a disparity in knowledge persists.

Beware of the person of one book.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

It is better to enlighten men's minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.

WHO IS LEARNED? A definition One who, consuming midnight oil in studies diligent and slow, teaches himself, with painful toil, the things that other people know.

I maintain that a student's memory is largely the teacher's responsibility.

In a not too distant future, reason and education will have driven home the lesson of the futility of jealousy. The day will come when our beloved children (the cuckolds of the future) will be prepared to be cuckolded and will no longer suffer for it, because we shall have inoculated them with commonsense and given them anti-cuckoldry injections. Now

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

Let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey thither.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

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

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.