Quotes About Knowledge

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

An education is the investment with the greatest returns.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.

Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

Education is a vaccine for violence.

Education is the best provision for old age.

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment a child is born-some say before-until it dies.

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.