Education Quotes

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Sure education is valuable in any respect regardless of what field you are in.

We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith.

Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.

Education is life itself.

Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.

Education and knowledge are the power of the minorities in this country

I think self-education is the greatest and best thing you could ever make.

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

Education doesn't just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.

As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.

What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness.

What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?

It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Learn to obey before you command.

Good is not good, where better is expected

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.

We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

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

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

My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.

I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man.

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

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.

I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.

As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization in education is crucial to both freedom and excellence.

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

The solution "cost me study that robbed me of rest for an entire night."

It is hard to learn when we think we know something.

Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?

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.

Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians.

Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

You get an education in school and in college. And then you start to work. and that's when you learn!

If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

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

No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.

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.

When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

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

Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?