Education Quotes

Many Chinese entrepreneurs are now donating for education; others support foundations in health care and research. None of us wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

The only things you learn are the things you tame

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.

Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?

When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So that makes me two and a half billion.

Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives.

Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.

We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.

The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.

I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that doesn't mean that Judaism was inadequate.

The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."

Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity.

A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.

Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

School's out forever, school's been blown to pieces.

The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

The inner cities, education is almost worthless, it's horrible. We're going to have Common Core ended.

It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.

Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

They will not stop me, I will get my education, if it is in home, school or any place

Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.

Education is the power terrorists fear most.

I tell you and you forget. I show you and you remember. I involve you and you understand.

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.

The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

The wonders of the ages assembled for your edification, education and enjoyment - for a price.