Quotes About Education

Teach a child to read and he/she will pass a literary test.

To those of you who received honors, awards , and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students I say, you, too, can be president of the United States.

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured. —New York, Sept. 26, 2007

The military was providing him (George H.W. Bush) with an education that was not available at Andover or Yale.

Professor Osterweis taught us how to structure a speech: introduction, three main points, peroration, and conclusion.

My first challenge was explaining Andover to my friends in Texas. In those days, most Texans who went away to high school had discipline problems. When I told a friend that I was headed to a boarding school in Massachusetts, he had only one question: "Bush, what did you do wrong?

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.

Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

A knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

Sono persone che si danno arie da borghesi. Io non mi sognerei mai di far studiare mio figlio da avvocato

I don't think I am green. It's true I only know what I've read in books, but I've read a great many books

How the deuce would you know the right way to go on if you was never taught anything but the wrong way?

Sophia, with real nobility of character, then asked Papa to explain something she had read in Sir John Malcolm's History of Persia, which the Vicar, whose only personal extravagance was his purchase of books, had lately added to his library.

Me, I am not a lady,' announced her grace. 'I have been very well educated, and I will drink port.

It's true I only know what I've read in books, but I've read a great many books.

It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of her personality, and this is perhaps the most misleading aspect of movements like the National Organization of Women. It was not the insistence upon her sex that weakened the American woman student's desire to make something of her education, but the insistence upon a passive sexual role

The chief reason [Bill] O'Reilly is a conservative is that like all conservatives he offers no solutions for the major issues confronting those he pretends to champion--such as better wages, workable health insurance, education for every deserving child, controls on the corporate thugs that are destroying our earth, an unfettered national voice for the ordinary citizen, reform of the election laws of this country that permitted corporations to own the country and enslave the people.

The children will go back to school. Sam and Annie can move into this house.

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

I have so much inertia and so little initiative that very possibly if you had not kept me from taking my degree I would have, well, not taken to the practice of medicine, but at any rate to pathological psychology and you don't know how little I like pathological psychology, and how all medicine bores me.

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Docendo discimus.' 'I'm afraid you will have to translate for me,' Tom told him. "'We learn by teaching"