Quotes About Education

Let them learn first to show piety at home.

Cave ab homine unius libri [Beware the man of one book].

Piscem natare doces [You're teaching a fish to swim].

The eggs do not teach the hen.

The new world of communication is a blessing for the citizens of the world trained to think critically and knowledgeable about history. But what about citizens who have been seduced by the world of life as entertainment and commerce? They have been educated, in good part, by a world in which negative emotional provocation is the rule rather than the exception and where the best solutions for a problem have to do primarily with short-term self-interests. Can they really be blamed?

From Switzerland in the south, throughout central Europe and Germany, and as far north and west as England, where Henry VIII burned a dozen Anabaptists at the stake, thousands of men and women were subjected to the most terrible persecution. Many of the more moderate leaders who abjured violence were martyred, leaving a gap in the leadership that was often filled by men of little education but much passion.

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.

But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught to every young man and woman as a fundamental skill, should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe one's own ass, cross the street by oneself, or be trusted with money.

...a victim of bad medicine, bad air, bad food, farcical education, a despicable popular culture.

It is generally felt that the educated man or woman should be able to read Dante, Goethe, Baudelaire, Lorca in the original - with, anyway, the crutch of a translation.

As one man said, "I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it.

Every child has a god in him. Our attempts to mold the child will turn the god into a devil. Children come to my school, little devils, hating the world, destructive, unmannerly, lying, thieving, bad-tempered. In six months they are happy, healthy children who do no evil.

he that knows all that Learning ever writ, knows only this--that he knows nothing yet. [Antonius Diogenes, trans. by Zeno Ninis]

Ninth-grade U.S. history: Not to hurt feelings but that chapter you assigned? That was all "Columbus is great," "The Indians sure loved Thanksgiving," "Let's brainwash everyone." I found way better stuff at the library

Well, Fredde has all the best there at that school, all the

Antiquity was invented to be the bread of librarians and schoolmasters.

He says there are sixty-five million specimens in this place, and if you have the right teacher, each can be as interesting as the last.

So many words! It would take seven lifetimes to learn them all.

A portrait of the führer glowers over every classroom.

You needn't have it memorized, dear. That's what the library is for.

Frederick blinks several times. As he often does when addressed in class, waiting for his internal life to catch up with his external one.

Consider a single piece glowing in your family's stove. See it, children? That chunk of coal was once a green plant, a fern or reed that lived one million years ago, or maybe two million, or maybe one hundred million . . .

A portrait of the führer glowers over every classroom. Learning happens on backless benches, at wooden tables grooved by the boredom of countless boys before them—squires, monks, conscripts, cadets.

He that knows all that Learning ever writ, knows only this—that he knows nothing yet.' "]·