Quotes About Education

It is well known that nothing is such thirsty work as the acquisition of knowledge

Do you know what learning gives you? The ability to make use of sources.

for it is well known that if there is anything that makes men thirstier than the acquisition of knowledge it is the full or partial prohibition of drinking.

Do you know, Ciri, what university studies give a person?' 'No. What?' 'The ability to make use of sources.

Benché una disposizione del rettore proibisse a studenti e baccellieri di bere e gozzovigliare prima del calar del crepuscolo, a Oxenfurt si beveva e si gozzovigliava sempre, ventiquattr'ore su ventiquattro, perché è noto che, se c'è qualcosa che può aumentare la sete ancor più del processo di assimilazione del sapere, è la proibizione completa o parziale di bere.

Anyone who doesn't know other languages is handicapped

There is nothing worse than chauvinism underpinned by scholarship.

You often disguise gaps in your education with sarcastic or exaggerated simplifications which you consider witty.

It's obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in your downtime. Wisdom that can change the very course of your life will come from the people you are around, the books you read, and the things you listen to or watch on radio or television.

Over the past fifty years, what some of our most prominent politicians didn't know could fill a book. This is that book.

Since he also asked, famously, "Is our children learning?" one expected that his first official act as president would be to cancel the agreement between subjects and verbs.)

People are alive by means of the circulation of the spirit and the movement of the cosmos. Without those we couldn't even be alive. And the systems of our world—academics, science, education, medicine, culture, and civilization—all are manifestations of this spirit but also of the current myths or cosmology that we are living. And these are what we must go beyond.

Learning isn't done to you; it's something you do.

Well, immediately we announced yesterday or the day before we're building, with my foundation, a youth tennis and learning center in Austin. I'd like to be hands on with that and not see it periodically.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

The teaching philosophy of most companies today is similar to that of the schools I went to – lots of people sitting in a classroom, with an expert up front telling you things. I've always thought that if that was the natural way for people to learn, we ought to see four-year-olds spontaneously forming themselves into rows.

The little boy met with his teachers and studied history, geography, mathematics, music, strategy, politics, dance, falconry, and all the things an emperor has to know so that later on he can do everything that makes him feel that doing it makes him the emperor.

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Knowledge itself was a secret treasure made all the more precious because most women did not possess it.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.