Education Quotes

Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Good teaching is l/4th preparation and 3/4ths theatre.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

If you educate a man you educate a person but if you educate a woman you educate a family.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me and I'll understand.

The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.

When there are two PhD's in a developing country one is Head of State and the other is in exile.

The freshmen bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out so it accumulates through the years.

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.

By learning you will teach by teaching you will learn.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay than they think.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

'Whom are you?' he asked for he had been to night school.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.

You can lead a man up to the university but you can't make him think.

If you think education is expensive - try ignorance.

It is a greater work to educate a child in the true and larger sense of the word than to rule a state.

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.

Soon learnt soon forgotten.

And if the student finds that this is not to his taste well that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted it is being formed.

Education n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.

The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal and no liberal education which is not technical.

John Milton called his school Christ College 'a stony-hearted stepmother'. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

Education today more than ever before must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.

The Jews have always been students and their greatest study is themselves.

Whenever I'm asked what college I attended I'm tempted to reply Thornton Wilder'.

Let the schools teach the nobility of labour and the beauty of human service: but the superstitions of ages past? Never!

He couldn't get into Harvard even if he had the dean's wife at gunpoint.

You could do anything in your room at college. You could smoke pot live in a coed dorm have a girl. But you couldn't have a . . . hot plate!

My husband managed to cram four years of college into five.

One little six-year-old took home a note saying he need not come to school since he was "too stupid to learn." That boy was Thomas Edison.

Last words when sending our boy to college: "If there's anything you want call us and we'll show you how to live without it."

She's an honor student. She's always saying "Yes Your Honor. No Your Honor."

Bumper sticker: Driver carries no cash - he has a son in college.

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions - everyone but a school bus driver.

It was going all wrong at my college interview until I nonchalantly asked "Do you need any large donations for new buildings?"

I won't say ours was a tough school but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to Be if I Grow Up."

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

There are a hundred thousand useless words in the English language but they come in handy in college football yells.

Bumper sticker: My kid beat the heck out of the student of the month.

A kindergarten teacher is a woman who knows how to make little things count.

When asked to spell Mississippi the boy asked "The river or the state?"

Letter home from college boy: "There are 370 boys here - I wish there were 369."