Quotes About Education

To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write. (VII

at the age of thirty, when it comes to high culture, one is a beginner, a child.—

university textbooks I'd encountered in my few weeks of class were deathly dull and totally impractical. Instead of introducing us to useful words like 'stir-fry' and 'braise', 'bamboo shoot' and 'quail', they had required us to learn by rote long lists of largely irrelevant Chinese characters:

Science is not wisdom.

It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.

The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.

Facts themselves do not give knowledge

By teaching the young, she remained young. Virtue does more to preserve youthfulness than all the pomades in Elizabeth Arden's.

There would be a course on the philosophy of history; another year the philosophy of Marxism, another the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of science, etc. All of these were presented in the light of the thought of St. Thomas.

The Logos or Word of God taking a child on His lap will forever remain the mission of education- to share it as wealth must be shared.

If we allow our mind to become fallow and do not pour truth into it by study, not only does ignorance possess it, but we actually reach a point where we can enjoy nothing but picture magazines and cheap novels.

The intelligentsia are those who have been educated beyond their intelligence.

Après qu'on a travaillé, le plus utile des délassements est une lecture qui vous instruit. L'âge de s'instruire n'est jamais passé

Dejar el campo, irse a la ciudad, hacer carrera universitaria, tener coche, y prosperar hasta lograr tener una casa de campo...

Vananenud raamatutest oma lastele raamatukogu rajamist saab õigustada ainult samamoodi, nagu õigustatakse varemete säilitamist: arheoloogiaga.

Mind you, after your silly debutantes have finished their proper posture and walking lessons, tell them it never killed any young lady to remove the book from off the top of her head and open it for a change. Just like I taught you.

I never saw a lad, page or prince, so eager to learn to do a thing right.

Chúng ta không th? d?y b?o ai b?t c? Ä'i?u gì. Chúng ta ch? có th? giúp h? phát hi?n ra nh?ng gì còn ti?m ?n bên trong con ng??i h?.

And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Man kann einen Menschen nichts lehren. Man kann ihm nur helfen, es in sich selbst zu finden!

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Philosophy is written in this all-encompassing book that is constantly open to our eyes, that is the universe; but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to understand the language and knows the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures; without these it is humanly impossible to understand a word of it, and one wanders in a dark labyrinth.

You cannot teach a person anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Natural selection favors the forces of psychological denial. The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers. Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.