Education Quotes

Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

When it comes to the education of our children... failure is not an option.

Social housing, education, health, jobs and sustainable surroundings. Those are my priorities.

There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.

Education isn't just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul.

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.

There's no education in the second kick of a mule

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

The present syllabus in our high schools corresponds almost exactly to what was known in 1640.

When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.

Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

Education is not a tool for development - individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams.

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

Education is our passport to the future.

And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

Knowledge is not information, it's transformation.

The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

I said to myself, Malala, you must be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an education. You are not committing a crime.

Pakistan is a peace loving, democratic country. Pashtuns want education for their daughters and sons. Islam is a religion of peace, humanity and brotherhood.

Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.

I don't care how rich and successful a man is. He's nothing without an education.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!