What Is Education Quotes

I believe that education is freedom. It provides the tools to affect one's own destiny.

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education.

If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration.

I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

Education is an admirable thing.

No one has yet invented a system of education that is capable of ruining everyone.

In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

Your education or your life, Claire. I'd rather you be alive and a little bit dumber.

I've done loads of things people have never seen, dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush, and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.

Man, I wouldn't know where to begin on education reform, but one thing we have to do is add teacher accountability WITHOUT stressing standardized test scores.

Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues.

How to teach rigor while preserving imagination is an unsolved challenge to education.

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

Labor is God's education.

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

I learned that books could be collected, that they were important enough to keep and that a story that seemed to be over could be part of a bigger one.

That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.

I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes.

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.

The chaotic theory of education is that you go to college, earn a degree and then that degree may be used in something completely different. It's about achieving the goal first.

My gut reaction [on Betsy DeVos] was, oh, my God. We are now back into the education wars.

College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

Maybe we could learn a little lesson, maybe this all shine a little light, cause there's no healthy way to mess with the line between wrong and right.

I know the author of my every breath, oh that's Jesus.

The teacher left her wisdom, in the minds of lots of children, and did her best to give them all a better start.

All education is self-discovery.

You don't have to be a genius to find the hidden potential deep in your mind.

The sum and substance of education is the right training that effectually leads the soul of the child at play on to the love of the calling in its adult life.

The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that.

I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket.

What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

Education ought to be affordable for everybody. That only advances a society.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet.

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.