Quotes About Education

I was a child who loved books, and I am an adult who is the product of books.

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.

Illiteracy is a form of slavery!" he would cry. "We can't waste time blaming anyone. We need to become obsessed with teaching people to read!

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

If you know how to read, the World of Books is open to you, after all; and if you like to read, you'll read. If you don't, you'll forget whatever anybody makes you read, anyway.

Qui non intellegit, aut taceat aut discat: if you don't get it, shut up or go figure.

If you know how to read, the World of Books is open to you, after all; and if you like to read, you'll read. If you don't, you'll forget whatever anybody makes you read, anyway.

For many years it had been claimed that the average achievement by pupils in some South-East Asian countries was significantly higher than in the United Kingdom. Then it came to light that the weakest pupils in that country were removed from the total who were evaluated at an earlier stage in the educational process. Clearly, the effect of their removal is to skew the average attainments to be higher than they would otherwise be.

A brilliant student, John Wesley pursued his education at Oxford University from 1720 until 1724. He was adept in a number of languages and appreciated classical culture. He became very interested in the writings of the church fathers (especially St. Chrysostom, Gregory of Nyssa, and later Macarius). He meditated on Bishop Taylor's Rules and Exercises of Holy Living and Holy Living and Rules and Exercises of Holy Dying

At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.

One of the unfortunate facts about being interested in nearly everything is that the depth of your knowledge is bound to remain inversely proportional to its range; the more you know en masse, the less you tend to know about a particular, narrow topic.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

An educated person is the person who has the power to go on and get more education.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

All genuine learning comes through experience.

Americans don't want to think. They want to know.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational.

Now in many cases—too many cases—the activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being.