Education Quotes

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

Eddie waited 'til he finished high school, he went to Hollywood, got a tattoo.

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

One may reject such proposals as something that will hurt merit but the ground reality is students from such sections do not have the same access to quality education that rich students enjoy.

Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self.

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.

Few things are as essential as education.

Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.

A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.

Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.

Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.

A teacher should be sparing of his smile.

[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.

Education is the preparation of the individual for reciprocal union with society; the preparation of the individual so that he can help his fellow-men and in return receive and appreciate their help.

You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.

From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

Art is a process, not a product.

I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.

Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?

Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education.

Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job.

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

I've always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob Machado Foundation, which focuses on environmental education for the little people of the world.

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

If knowledge is not democratized, power can never be.

[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

When you don't have an education, you have to use your brains.

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.

An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

The Germans have a wonderful combination of pathos, energy, and humor. They are like Californians with an education.

I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read.