Quotes About Education

For years i had been resolved - unconsciously at first, but consciously later on - that when once my scholarship was won i would 'slack off' and cram no longer. This resolve, by the way, was so fully carried out that between the ages of thirteen and twenty-two or three i hardly ever did a stroke of avoidable work.

If you've got any education, it don't matter to you if you're on the road for the rest of your life... If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can still keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here"'—he tapped his forehead—'and you're all right.

Porque se lazer e segurança fossem desfrutados por todos igualmente, a grande massa de seres humanos que costuma ser embrutecida pela pobreza se alfabetizaria e aprenderia a pensar por si; e depois que isso acontecesse, mais cedo ou mais tarde essa massa se daria conta de que a minoria privilegiada não tinha função nenhuma e acabaria com ela. A longo termo, uma sociedade hierárquica só era possível num mundo de pobreza e ignorância.

En iyi kitaplar, bize bildiklerimizi söyleyenlerdir.

Aptall??? edinmek, en az zekay? edinmek kadar güçtü.

Nowhere was the complacency of the establishment, with its blind faith in progress, more evident than in its attitude toward an elite degree: as long as my child goes to the right schools, upward mobility will continue. A university education had become the equivalent of a very expensive insurance policy, like owning a gun.

How could a college dropout find himself, at the age of twenty-six, a government-funded rocket scientist?

Todo lo que sabe un hombre puede ser enseñado.

The more of wisdom we know, the more we may earn. That man who seeks to learn more of his craft shall be richly rewarded.

We are eager to hear as well as to learn.

As for study, did not our wise teacher teach us that learning was of two kinds: the one kind being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?

Cuantos mas conocimientos adquiramos, mas dinero ganaremos. El hombre que espera aprender mejor su oficio sera recompensado con creces

Arkad,' he continued, 'you have learned your lessons well. You first learned to live upon less than you could earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who were competent through their own experiences to give it. And, lastly, you have learned to make gold work for you. "'You have taught yourself how

Entre más sabiduría tenemos, más podemos ganar. El hombre que busca aprender más de su oficio será ricamente recompensado

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

We're in a culture that doesn't value writing as highly as it should. And I think we see that in our public discourse, I think we see that in our susceptibility to the big ol' lie.

The educated person is one who knows how to find out what he does not know

Those who, in actual fact, generate the syllabus, who recognize, elucidate, and transmit the legacy of literacy in regard to textual, artistic, and musical creation, have always been, are a handful.

George Steiner

George Steiner

Si no se puede enseñar el amor, ¿se puede enseñar el odio?

La palabrería de lo «políticamente correcto» ha hecho casi imposible entablar un debate serio acerca de la naturaleza y la educación; examinar la parte de la herencia genética, y de factores económicos y sociales, en la composición de las capacidades humanas.

Una mayoría incalculable de la humanidad elegirá ver telenovelas en vez de leer a Esquilo;