Quotes About Education

We teach them correct principles and let them govern themselves.

It is less painful to learn in youth than to be ignorant in age

We learn by teaching.

Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age

They who increase knowledge, increase sorrow

An illiterate king is a crowned ass.

Crooked by nature is never made straight by education.

Learned fools are the greatest fools.

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The mistakes of others are good teachers.

Theory dominates practice.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

To-day is the pupil of yesterday.

Letters and science will only take their proper place in the work of human development when, freed from all mercenary bondage, they will be exclusively cultivated by those who love them, and for those who love them.

Man is a result of both his inherited instincts and his education. Among the miners and the seamen, their common occupations and their every-day contact with one another create a feeling of solidarity, while the surrounding dangers maintain courage and pluck. In the cities, on the contrary, the absence of common interest nurtures indifference, while courage and pluck, which seldom find their opportunities, disappear, or take another direction. Moreover

Engineers, scientists, and doctors merely exploit their capital—their diplomas—as middle-class employers exploit a factory, or as nobles used to exploit their titles of nobility.

Do you not see that by your methods of teaching, framed by a ministry for 8 million scholars, who represent 8 million different capacities, you only impose a system good for mediocrities, conceived by an average of mediocrities? Your school becomes a university of laziness, as your prison is a university of crime.

And we say, 'Down with the privileges of education, as well as those of birth!' We are anarchists precisely because these privileges revolt us. They revolt us already in this authoritarian society. Could we endure them in a society that began by proclaiming equality?

Las letras y las ciencias no tomarán su verdadero lugar en la obra del desarrollo humano hasta el día en que, libres de toda servidumbre mercenaria, sean exclusivamente cutivadas por los que la aman y para aquellos que las aman.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.

They smell of the lamp.