Education Quotes

All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.

...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

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.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

You must fight others, but through peace, and through dialogue, and through education.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Education is civil defence against media fallout.

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

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.

I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system.

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

What I learned on my own I still remember

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Personally I do not resort to force - not even the force of law - to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example - of fashion.

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.

The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.

... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in accordance with God's Will.

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

Education made us what we are.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

I lived in a project and...didn't have a good education. But...I'd listen to the preacher, who said that God would show me the way. Everything starts from that confidence.

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education.

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

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.

Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

The children are now working as if I did not exist.