Quotes About Education

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it

You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.

I possessed nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that with a hundred and fifty well-chosen books a man possesses a complete analysis of all human knowledge, or at least all that is either useful or desirable to be acquainted with. – Abbe Faria

apprendre n'est pas savoir; il y a les sachants et les savants: c'est la memoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres.

Instruction is good for a child; but example is worth more.

Il y a les sachants et les savants: c'est la mémoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres. La philosophie ne s'apprend pas; la philosophie est la réunion des sciences acquises au génie qui les applique.

I had nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that with one hundred and fifty well-chosen books a man possesses, if not a complete summary of all human knowledge, at least all that a man need really know.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

First, he became aware of it. Many of us don't seem able to take even this step. Second, and most significant, he chose not to focus on reinforcing its weaker threads. Instead, he did the exact opposite: He identified its strongest threads, wove in education and experience, and built them into the dominating strengths we see today.

Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.

Ours is a time of space telescopes, electron microscopes, supercomputers, and the worldwide web. This is not a time for parsing the lessons given to a few goatherds, tentmakers, and camel drivers. Rev. Michael Dowd, Thank God for Evolution!

Perhaps more than an American high school, Japan is like an English public school. You are supposed to learn, excel, and win athletic distinctions—not for yourself, but for the house and for the country, for being Japanese. First on the field, all for the sake of your school. And then, the emptiness when you graduate.

They don't know this stuff because (a) their time was better spent making music; (b) they weren't interested; (c) it sounded too complicated; and/or (d) learning it was too much like being in school.

The best leaders never stop learning.

It doesn`t hurt to get more education.

Watch, listen, and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters – the saints and the sinners, real or imagined – reading shows you how to be a better human being.

If the desired system state is good education, measuring that goal by the amount

Changes in stocks set the pace of the dynamics of systems. Industrialization cannot proceed faster than the rate at which factories and machines can be constructed and the rate at which human beings can be educated to run and maintain them. Forests can't grow overnight. Once contaminants have accumulated in groundwater, they can be washed out only at the rate of groundwater turnover, which may take decades or even centuries.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

To teach well is to believe in what and whom you teach.