Quotes About Learning

a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

Education must precede motivation.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.

There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

Education made us what we are.

The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.