Education Quotes
Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.
They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything.
How can the bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?
The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge.
What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
Spend the years of learning squanderingCourage for the years of wanderingThrough a world politely turningFrom the loutishness of learning.
The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing
How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them.
Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor that you could to-day.
In large States public education will always be extremely mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is at best only mediocre.
Most people who were educated have become the "problems" instead of problem solvers.