Quotes About Education

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

I've studied now Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Medicine,— And even, alas! Theology,— From end to end, with labor keen; And here, poor fool! with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before:

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Well, that's Philosophy I've read, And Law and Medicine, and I fear Theology, too, from A to Z; Hard studies all, that have cost me dear. And so I sit, poor silly man No wiser now than when I began.

Anyone that doesn't know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

Într-adev?r ?tiu multe, dar a? vrea s? ?tiu totul.

He is a prophet and not a poet and therefore his Koran is to be seen as a divine law and not as a book of a human being, made for education or entertainment.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

He [Muhammed] is a prophet and not a poet and therefore his Koran is to be seen as a divine law and not as a book of a human being, made for education or entertainment.

Left to itself every literature will exhaust its vitality, if it is not refreshed by the interest and contributions of a foreign one. What naturalist does not take pleasure in the wonderful things that he sees produced by reflection in a mirror? Now what a mirror in the field of ideas and morals means, everyone has experienced in himself, and once his attention is aroused, he will understand how much of his education he owes to it.

The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.

Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life.

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

School teaches you what to do with the rest of your life. I already knew.

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.

Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Life is only good for two things, doing mathematics and teaching it.

Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.