Quotes About Education

Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others... No one's education is ever complete.

Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge

I make not therefore my head a grave, but a treasure, of knowledge; I intend no Monopoly, but a community, in learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.

Young Shostakovich-Mitya-was nine, relatively old, when he began piano lessons. His first instructor was his mother, who, when she saw his rapid progress, took him to a piano teacher. The following conversation was a favorite family story: I've brought you a marvelous pupil! All mothers have marvelous children.... Within two years he played all the preludes and fugues in Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. It was clear that he was exceptionally gifted.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want. Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace

Everyone keeps saying I'll pick it up. But what if I don't? I did algebra for three years, and I never picked that up.

What if our children are all super-bright and I can't understand what they're saying and they look down on me because I haven't got a PhD?

Top tip to all teachers reading this (i.e., none, probably): try not showing off the girl who cringes when anyone even looks at her. Because it's not that helpful. Also, it's not that helpful to say in the whole class's earshot: "She's the great hope of this year group, so talented.

OK, I have to make sure we're on the same page here. Because I might mean one thing and she might mean, intending to start a Cordon Bleu course when I get back to England.

If I ran the country there'd be courses in things that you'd actually use your whole life. Like: How to do eyeliner. How to fill in a tax return. What to do when your loo blocks and your dad isn't answering the phone and you're about to have a party.

Mum's suddenly become interested in LOC

The great thing about legal training is it really teaches you to lie.

Always desire to learn something useful.

Ah! terrible is knowledge to the man Whom knowledge profits not.

But now I have a right to learn from you as you just learned from me.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

It is the hallmark of an educated person to remain skeptical of accepted views and to regard even the most popular beliefs as working assumptions.

I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that would let me avoid the tenure race and full-time teaching.

I really do put it on Bill Clinton's presidency as the time when the Democrats became the party of the college degree as the key to success in life.

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were not-imaginative , tolerant, alert to wonders, life.