Quotes About Education

I was on the sideline for the '85 Super Bowl, but I was going to college.

Who the heck wants to go to school after you just played in the Super Bowl?

I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing.

I created the first black superhero who was not a gangbanger or an African chief but was rather a college graduate and a professional, which I think is a big accomplishment.

Live for a while in these books, learn from them whatever seems to you worth learning, but above all love them.

Live in these books for a while, learn from them what seems to be worth learning, but above all love them.

It is not necessary to make your children hermits; you should make them gentlemen. That would be more than enough.

collectivity of politically astute citizens who, by virtue of our vaunted system of universal education and our freedom of opportunity, would be prepared to govern.

I'll teach you some good bad habits. You'll need 'em.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide...

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.

That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.