Quotes About Education

At his old school, they taught him a song to remember all its phases. Sometimes he'll sing it for us at dinner, but only if we do not request it.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University.

Schooling, education and knowledge are not the same thing. One is not a natural result of the other. People grow in knowledge when they learn truths. Teaching and schooling are meaningless when students do not seek wisdom. They are likewise meaningless when that which is taught is not wisdom. In order to learn, people must thirst for knowledge. Force and compulsion cannot accomplish this.

This is an old problem: Knowledge calls for more knowledge,

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands, and there is no knowledge that is not power.

Every schoolboy knows it.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.

The words of Plato in the third book of the Republic are as follows: " Truth, said Socrates, is to be specially cultivated.

The rude and simple brother must not suppose himself a saint just because he knows nothing; and he who is educated and eloquent must not measure his saintliness merely by his fluency.

One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know more than you "ought" to.

Culture and education are two sides of the same coin, and we cannot understand one without understanding the other.

The purpose of education is to produce autonomous learners who can continue to learn after they leave school.

Education is not just about learning facts, but about learning how to learn.

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

Despite education and knowledge and experience, when you are the patient--suffering, confused, and despairing--it is very, very hard to take matters into your own hands. I was not a George Griffin, able to stand alone and challenge the prevailing assumptions. I needed an external voice, strong and determined, to guide me.

I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.

It frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had your driving curiosity.

Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educatability of man -- the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.

If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it.

For us that is not a particularly striking event, but for a Muslim country to allow a Christian school to remain open when others were closed was indeed unusual.