Quotes About Education

As he got to know her better, he learned more of her childhood; and he came to realize that it was typical of that of most girls of her time and circumstance. She was educated upon the premise that she would be protected from the gross events that life might thrust in her way, and upon the premise that she had no other duty than to be a graceful and accomplished accessory to that protection, since she belonged to a social and economic class to which protection was an almost sacred obligation.

our university system–learn and regurgitate.

A graduate can be academically excellent but morally and spiritually bankrupt. We need to consider these dimensions in education as well.

Asperger's is not a disease. It's a way of being. There is no cure, nor is there a need for one. There is, however, a need for knowledge and adaptation on the part of Aspergian kids and their families and friends.

You can still graduate," my guidance counselor said. But I doubted his sincerity

The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.

Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?

And I beseech you, forget not to informe yourselfe as dilligently as may be, in things that belong to Gardening.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

Liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. [Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22 1963]

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Graduating from college doesn't mean you're smart, said Mike Mussina who graduated from Stanford in 3 1/2 years, but it does mean you're smart enough to know that having a college degree would be a good thing.

The last officer named was Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island; a man of limited education and military experience limited to two years of peacetime militia duty, he nevertheless was destined to be the best of the lot.27

Jefferson was the rare student who came to college already knowing that there could be joy in studying.

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have the liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecutre, Statuary, Tapestry, and Porcelaine.

Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other.

Modern cynics and skeptics ... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.