Education Quotes

The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.

Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

Education is... doing anything that changes you.

Change is a pesky notion. For many folks, the biggest challenge in changing their eating habits isn't money, time, or education; it's reframing their connection between food and love.

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

literacy is at the heart of sustainable development

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.

We have taken a strategic decision to gather education activities under a single roof.

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.

The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed, they hurt America and American business, making us less competitive in the global market.

Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.

Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

Free education and health care are essential for the welfare of the population.

Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.

Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.

Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

Details are all there are.

Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.