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Quotes About Education

The tools that would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
~ Plato, The Republic
It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science and about the things that were known before science came.
~ Lord Dunsany
Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.
~ Che Guevara
It was clear to me from the start that I would need to combine both a medical degree with a research qualification, to keep at the cutting edge of medical science and technology.
~ Susan Lim
Technology can be a great equalizer when it comes to health care, education - to the point where rich, poor, middle class can all get the same benefits.
~ Jeff Greene
I'd rather have the influence than the power, and the influence to me is to build institutions of independence and democracy, to regain for Egypt prestige in education and science and technology.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.
~ Wendy Kopp
I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting.
~ Brenton Thwaites
I just am a huge cheerleader for getting kids interested in science and technology.
~ Vint Cerf
A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.
~ Thomas Eakins
The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That's it. I'll house you, protect you, I'll even give my life for you, and in return, you will behave.
~ Gene Simmons
My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful.
~ Bill Cosby
I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter, ' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.
~ Judy Blume
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.
~ Noam Chomsky
Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.
~ Jean Piaget
Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.
~ Jean Piaget
Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.
~ Jean Piaget
Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students.
~ Jill Stein
The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.
~ Seymour Papert
Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.
~ Benjamin Rush
We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.
~ David Warlick
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
~ Thomas More