Education Quotes

You can't learn less.

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.

You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.

I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'

Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

"Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.

All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.

It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there.

In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

Education is how to help the person who's lost a job. Education is how to make sure we've got a workforce that's productive and competitive.

The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

I didn't want to miss out on my education to model. I can't do just modeling.

As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.

To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

Education isn't a result. It's a process.

The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.

Theres my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between.

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.

A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.

At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.

It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.