Quotes About Education

I have always been thankful that Mother started teaching me ahead of time, because it enabled me to skip half the grades in school and thus get out quicker. To me, attending school was a gloomy and unjust imprisonment for offenses I had not yet committed. I still think it is unfair for the authorities to assume that children are going to be so wicked that they are prepared arbitrarily for institutional life instead of activities in the open.

scientific education has run so far ahead of artistic culture and general knowledge that adults with the mentality of children are playing with phenomenally powerful toys...

Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

Nothing learned is ever quite wasted.

Dr. Edmonds smiled and shrugged. "It's a bit harsh, perhaps, but Ezra Pound once said, 'Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing; the rest is mere sheepherding.' I think he was right. I seem to have spent my life with the sheep.

Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom-discipline, tolerance, honesty-is one of the most important ways children learn how to function in society at large.

Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college.

For the first time in his life Matt was glad he had done his homework. If he hadn't done that history report, he probably wouldn't even know where he was right now.

Was it a millionaire who said "imagine no possessions?" A poor little schoolboy who said "we don't need no lessons?

Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.

If you decide you don't have to get A's, you can learn an enormous amount in college.

A know-all or know-it-all is a person who behaves as if he or she knows everything. Now listen up, no one knows everything, regardless of world renowned professors and intellectuals. Oh! yes, even you personally you don't know everything and you will never know everything, no matter your level of education or qualification. Thus, disregard whatever you think you know presently and then humble yourself in order to learn something new from someone else or others. ~Emeasoba George

Access to Internet is an access into a Great wealth of knowledge and information. -Emeasoba George

Are you teachable or not? Listen up, you've got to be teachable for life. Because, until and unless you are teachable, you cannot learn something new. Yes! if you are not willing to learn no one can teach you. Besides that, if you are not determined to learn no one can persuade you to learn. Now that is to say, teachability (ability and willingness to learn) is the key to learning. So come on, be teachable for life. As well, be apt (quick to learn) at all times. ~Emeasoba George

Dare to ask questions whenever you are not clarified. Never feel too wise or too educated to learn something new from someone else or others. For, you don't know it all and you will never know it all. Yes! learning is meant to be a continuous process.

Dare to ask questions whenever you are not clarified. Never feel too wise or too educated to learn something new from someone else or others. For, you don't know it all and you will never know it all. Yes! learning is meant to be a continuous process. -Emeasoba George

Have you learned anything positive from anyone or from anywhere? If Yes! then, dare to teach or educate the world right here and even beyond here. Moreover, if you've got anything worth sharing out. Then, go ahead and share it all with someone else or others right here or out there. Because, you've been taught and given in order to share it all with someone else or others and not at all to withhold it (mark you). -Emeasoba George

No one knows everything. Oh! yes, you might have seen it all. But, you don't know it all yet and you will never know it all. Thus, keep on learning something new from everyone and from everything you come across. ~Emeasoba George

Quality education is the key to civilization and socialization. Yes! sound education is bound to make you civilized and socialized eventually. Thus, endeavour to be educated. Moreover, never mind your age in your quest for education. For, it does not matter. -Emeasoba George

Resolve to be a lifetime learner. For, learning in life is living truly. -Emeasoba George

Upbringing, education and environment are influential on one's personality i.e. they do play essential role in building up one's/your personality. So, never take them for granted.

You should be attracted to someone's level of intelligence and not just his or her level of education. For, someone could graduate from the best University and yet remains clueless about the world and the society that he or she finds himself or herself. -Emeasoba George

You've got to realize that life is a school and you are meant to learn daily.