Quotes About Education

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

You can sum me up in about ten words: a former student of English literature who—who—who went downhill from there! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha!

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

Well, there's so much to read, and I'm so far behind.

After all, we had been programmed in the same system, stuffed like Strasbourg geese with the best that has been known and said in the world during man's long struggle upward from spontaneity to cliché.

An acquaintance with books and learning was not a thing that a frontier boy like John Wesley Powell could take for granted; he had to seize it as he could. Abe Lincoln said it for every such boy with brains and dreams in his head: "The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is a man who'll git me a book I ain't read.

They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne.

They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne. We shall return at twilight from the lecture Pleased that the irrational is rational

Dr. [Richard] Bentley's son reading a novel, the Doctor said, "Why read a book which you cannot quote?"

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

View every day as a school day and every relationship as an opportunity to learn. There is no such thing as an accidental encounter. Each person you meet has been sent by God for your edification.

Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make your free." John 8:32 These words are carved over the doors of university buildings. Obviously, how the university and Jesus use this phrase differ. Jesus said of Himself, "I am Truth."1 And again, "If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."2

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

If you've told a child a thousand times and he still doesn't understand, then it is not the child who is a slow learner.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

The dominant value system of our commodity society is to marginalize that human dimension, a marginalization that is epitomized in the loss of the arts from school budgets and the making of money as the definition of a "career" and therefore the measure of education.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

Walter Cronkite "Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

I know well that only the rarest kind of best can be good enough for the young.

Reading is not optional.