Education Quotes
The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.
One can compare art education to the solid foundation for a house - once it's built properly, it will hold any shape or form you will place on it.
Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.
Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
He was the kind of kid you did not want to sit by. He kept his boogers in his desk, he wore a neck tie.
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.
In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.
Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.
I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.
There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.
Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.
That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.
A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.
Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.
I'm a big fan of music, I'm a student of music, and I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about the music.
My parents always told us, you know, you have to get your education. You're not supposed to become a statistic.
I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been a great education for me, and I've loved every minute of it.
Once people see that you improve you life if you are educated, then education becomes a valuable tool and people want it.
No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.
Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?