Education Quotes

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

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

I do not dislike teaching when the boys behave themselves.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

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

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.

I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

All of life is a constant education.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids through college.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer.

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most

Education is what allows you to stand out

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.

Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure.

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

You give to the world your greatest gift when you're being yourself.

If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.

My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

The wealth that increases by giving, That wealth is knowledge and is supreme of all possessions.

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.

Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

I want to take human rights out of their box. I want to show the relevance of the universal principles of human rights to the basic needs of health, security, education and equality.

In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school

The education of youth, an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on which both law and gospel rest for success.

Education has been a really big part of my life. I went to an all-girls school for most of my life, and the curriculum was definitely at the top of your list.

Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.

Education is education, be it verbal or written.

In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

Education, like faith, is the evidence of things not seen.

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.