Quotes About Education

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

Learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

the masters, robed, gowned, their attitudes varying from indulgent ennui to virtual coma.

Mr Philpotts was a chemistry master whose principal characteristic lay in a sort of unfocused vehemence

What we need," he wrote, "is to turn out of colleges young men with ardent convictions on the side of right; not young men who can make a good argument for either right or wrong, as their interest bids them.

Take care of your morals first, your health next, and finally your studies.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

The teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.

Contrary to the popular belief that educators across the world have typically been agents for progressive racial change, the weight of the evidence suggests that most educational systems and most educators operate to maintain racial hierarchy rather than to challenge it.

Everyone should learn a manual trade. It's never too late to become an honest person.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book. Most

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

refuse to accept assertions blindly. Challenge everything and everyone—including your teachers. Don't be intimidated. You are the best authority on what you don't understand—trust yourself: don't be afraid to ask the questions you need to ask, and be brave enough to change your thinking when you uncover a blind spot.

As you learn more, the fundamentals become at once simpler but also subtler, deeper, more nuanced, and more meaningful.

The depth with which you master the basics influences how well you understand everything you learn after that.

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

We hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.