Quotes About Education

Medical education does not exist to provide student with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

There is no sin greater than ignorance.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading

Reading is fundamental.

In the great tradition of Paris Is Burning, bring out your library cards! Because reading is what? Fundamental!

After all, it's difficult to obtain a student loan for a school that not only denies its own existence but teaches its students how to deny other people theirs.

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

I was free, yes, but what good was freedom without knowledge?

Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them, but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards.

teacher droned on and on, lecturing

Rebellious schoolboys are unwelcome in a technologically advanced, moralistic, exam-oriented society. We prefer a polished Bill Gates to an eccentric Einstein. Eccentrics do unpredictable things, and we have become afraid of the unpredictable.

I believe in local control of education.

Lessons learned are not lessons learned unless you learn them.

Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.

While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school anymore.

These students were taking part in an experiment that had never been tried before. They wanted to prove that blind youngsters were capable of being taught, that they could master their handicap and lead useful, productive lives. Founded in 1784