Education Quotes

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.

Education is the great engine to personal development.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.

You have to be more picky with jobs when you're at school because you can't miss crucial times and put your education in jeopardy for things that aren't worth it at the time.

A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student, and it should require some "dreaming" time.

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in history that people can enjoy the vote even if they have no education.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Compensatory education has been tried and it apparently has failed

He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

If children have interests, then education happens.

We all know that education unlocks the door of opportunity for the young.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Animal protection is education to the humanity.

Thus the radii of all education run together into one center which is called personality.

I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.

Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others... No one's education is ever complete.

I love to read. My education is self-inflicted

Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.

Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

Every child has a right to education as much as to life, and every woman the right to live.

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

People blame their environment, their education, their opportunities, their luck, for their condition. They are wrong. There is one person to blame — and only one — THEMSELVES.

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned.

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.

Education must be orientated towards the attainment of character for leading clean simple lives.

Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength.

Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.

The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.

What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

Education always continues. We all know that beauty fades, but what stays is a person's personality, their sense of humor, their wit, what they're interested in. That's what really shines.

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task.