Quotes About Education

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

The only thing the young should be taught is that there is virtually nothing to be hoped for from life. One dreams of a Catalogue of Disappointments which would include all the disillusionments reserved for each and every one of us to be posted in the schools.

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Education is a social thing; that is to say, it brings the child into contact with a definite society and not with society in general.

En général, les hommes n'aspirent à s'instruire que dans la mesure où ils sont affranchis du joug de la tradition; car tant que celle-ci est maîtresse des intelligences, elle suffit à tout et ne tolère pas facilement de puissance rivale.

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

Emilie Buchwald quotes Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.

There had been a time, until 1422, when a number of both Gaelic and Anglo-Irish students attended Oxford and Cambridge in England. But fellow students had complained that Irish living together in large numbers sooner or later got noisy and violent and there was no handling them. Accordingly, the universities imposed a quota system on Irishman, and decreed that those admitted must be scattered around among non-compatriots: exclusively Irish halls of residence were banned.

How old are you ?" asks Plastic again. "That doesn't matter," says StingRay. "What matters is how much stuff I know. People who know a lot of stuff don't need birthdays.

Probably we pursue an insoluble problem in seeking a suitable education for a morbidly melancholy mind.

A Nation will only progress if it's youth moves towards education and will destroy if it's youth leaves the way of education.

Youth is the decider of the future of a nation and teachers are their guiders or trainers.

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.

I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.

Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.

Man inherits the capacity for loyalty, but not the use to which he shall put it. The persons and causes (if any) to which he shall devote himself are suggested to him, often, indeed, imposed upon him, by education and environment. Nevertheless, they are his by choice, not by hereditary compulsion. And his choice may be bad. He may unselfishly devote himself to what is petty or vile, as he may to what is generous and noble.

The constant pressure of custom; the effects of imitation, of education, and of habit; the incalculable influence of man on man, produce a working uniformity of conviction more effectually than the gallows and the stake, though without the cruelty, and with far more than the wisdom that have usually been vouchsafed to official persecutors.

Know or listen to those who know.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

A man ought not to marry without having studied anatomy, and dissected at least one woman.

The number of things which you do not understand increases day by day.

I tell ye it was some work for me to get the knack o' readin'; but when it come it come!