Quotes About Education

Mr. Low, having not unnaturally been jealous that a young whipper-snapper of a pupil

No;—nobody in England ever is taught anything but Latin and Greek,—with this singular result, that after ten or a dozen years of learning not one in twenty knows a word of either language. That is our English idea of education. In after life a little French may be picked up, from necessity; but it is French of the very worst kind. My wonder is that Englishman can hold their own in the world at all.

The Reformation, which had necessitated the flight of the convents and their treasured nun–teachers from England, was a positive disadvantage to the cause of girls' education – unless the girls could go abroad.

Love truth and its fruits of life, for yourself and for others; devote to study and to the profitable use of study the best part of your time and your heart.

Culture is a privilege. Education is a privilege. And we do not want it to be so. All young people should be equal before culture.

The history of education shows that every class which has sought to take power has prepared itself for power by an autonomous education. The first step in emancipating oneself from political and social slavery is that of freeing the mind. I put forward this new idea: popular schooling should be placed under the control of the great workers' unions. The problem of education is the most important class problem.

Education is a struggle against instincts which are linked to elemental biological functions, a struggle against nature, in order to dominate it and create man immersed within his own time.

The ubiquitous initials LSR for Luftschutzraum, or air-raid shelter, were said to stand for 'Lernt schnell Russisc': 'Learn Russian quickly'.

They are likely to have less educated parents who own fewer books and talk to them less from the time they are infants—a gap that's been estimated at 30 million words by the time they start kindergarten.

As parents, I believe it's our job to enhance the good for our kids even as we try to mitigate the bad, and more than that, to remain open to learning what our children's media interests have to teach us.

Where do you go when you want to learn things? No, not the internet. The public library. -Piper

If we are poor learners, our teaching will be ineffective.

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.

To free a man from error is to give, not take away

It was made clear that sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancy were simply not for us: We were to use birth control and go to college and if we somehow got pregnant too soon or with the wrong guy, we were to abort. There was no mention of the possibility that we might want to get pregnant too late.

Even from enemies much can be learned by the intelligent, More in fact than from our friends.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

Wit is educated insolence.

All men by nature desire to know.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all                       

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Educating the head without educating the heart is no education at all