Quotes About Education

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

If you don't keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won't do it - you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved.

The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you.

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem.

I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.

Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide.

I feel like I try to keep learning every time I step off a runway, I try to get better with each one.

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.

I wasn't any good at sports, but I could name all the presidents by the time I was six. I've always been very interested in politics and in religion.

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.