Quotes About Education

Education, in its largest sense, is a thing of great scope and extent. It includes the whole process by which a human being is formed to be what he is, in habits, principles, and cultivation of every kind.

Do you ask, then, what will educate your son? Your example will educate him.

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun; the education of circumstances — insensible education—which, like insensible perspiration, is of more constant and powerful effect, and of infinitely more consequence to the habit, than that which is direct and apparent.

The first thing to be considered, with respect to education, is the object of it. This appears to me to have been generally misunderstood.

Geography is best learned along with history; for if the first explains history, the latter gives interest to geography, which without it is but a dry list of names.

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

The faculty of teaching freely is a right, for instruction is a duty.

We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos.

Philosophy will go on being taught in the world and all over the world. Only a few, perhaps, will reach the deeps of it in this life; but a seed sown to-day may bear fruit long hence.

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. KRISHNAMURTI I

As Socrates said, "True learning is remembering.

I hate my boss! I hope he never graduates high school.

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My training is in the arts of killing and preparing the kill for consumption. I am told you call this home economics.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art.

In ancient Greece, adolescence was a time when young men left their biological families to become the lovers of adult men. Sexuality was but one element of an affectional and educational relationship in which youths learned the ways of manhood

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Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to improve institutions we deem defective. But let us, in doing so, respect the orderly processes of the law. Any other course enthrones tyrants and dooms freedom.

In some ways we should be far better off if we never used words. There are those who think that, in this matter of confusion, learning helps. But it may be the means of making confusion worse confounded.

I taught you everything you know, but not everything I know.