Quotes About Education

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

Boredom is the opposite of learning. When a game stops teaching us, we feel bored.

Knowledge and education in the hands of one who claims no higher accountability or authority than one's own individuality is power in the hands of a fool.

Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but the mirror will not wash your face.

academic or material advancement does not necessarily confer wisdom. As someone rightly quipped, "It may be a smartphone, but it is not a wise phone.

For the first time, I felt my mind being stretched — and I loved it. I realized that thinking could be fun, and with that simple realization I was sent headlong into the lifelong discipline of reading. I

Dac? senzualul nu ar fi educat ?i dirijat de spiritual, s-ar reduce invariabil la fizic, ?i nimic mai mult.

When I was in school, every student's grades and position in the class were printed in the leading newspapers for all to see. Success or failure was reason for public pride or shame. One of my closest friends toyed with suicide after his high-school exams because he did not stand first in the entire city of New Delhi. Another one of my classmates in college actually burned himself to death because he did not make the grade. Such

from the extensive emphasis on ceremony to a focus on teaching.

When one studies the viewing habits of the young and considers the thousands of hours spent unthinkingly in front of a TV screen or iPhone, it is easy to see why the power of abstract reasoning has died since the advent of television and, in the words of Jacques Ellul, we are living with the humiliation of the word.

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Libraries raised me.

Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.

Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ignorance is fatal.

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.

Without the library, you have no civilization.

School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?

You don't have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with nonreaders, nonlearners, non-knowers?

If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.

We do need knowledge. . . Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.