Quotes About Education

But sometimes it is fun not knowing what the words mean because you can look them up in a dictionary...

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself.

Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day.

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you in a place like this, and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No one is educated who cannot educate himself.

Alessandro sat up straight. How is it you think babies are born? Something the mother and father do before sex, some sort of cloth or herb or hard-boiled egg that the father puts in the mother or something, with a rubber bulb and a glass dish. No, Alessandro said. That's not quite it. No? No. You just have to have sex—if you're married, fifty times; if you're not married, once. You're kidding!

I am not a well educated man except that I have educated myself, and, because I have educated myself, what I say will not stand up, for lack of recognized authority. This in turn leaves me free to say what I will, in the hope that, like those small forces that do not threaten empires and are thus not fully pursued, the things in which I believe can survive in some high and forgotten place until the power of empire subsides.

There is a big difference between living in a society that hunts whales and living in one that views them. Nature is being reduced to precious demonstrations for entertainment and education, something far less natural than hunting. Are we headed for a world where nothing is left of nature but parks?

Mütter Museum

It is easier," said Frederick Douglass, "to build strong children than to repair broken men.

America has potholed roads and decrepit airports, but it builds state-of-the-art offices for regulatory bureaucrats—and their enforcers. The federal Department of Education doesn't employ a single teacher, but it does have a SWAT team.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, because that is what he will know.

Books were not an expense; they were an investment.

By fall, they can read. It happened by osmosis, the way it ought to: after they have spent several months on Daddy's lap, following his spoken words with their eyes and pretending to read, their comes a day when they no longer have to pretend.

Sat - sex is good for the voice. Why don't they teach you that in school?

Uno y otro deben estar aprendiendo hasta

Maybe we missed an important moment in history there. When we finally closed down home ec, maybe we missed an opportunity. Instead of shutting down compulsory cooking classes for young women, maybe we would have been far better off simply demanding that the men learn how to cook, too.

Así como antes la equitación, el tiro con arco y el don de lenguas se consideraban artes «masculinas» fundamentales, de adquisición imprescindible para todo aspirante a caballero, así debería contemplarse el arte de la cocina.

People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.