Quotes about Education
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
It takes a village to raise a child.
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated.
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is educated.
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
Ye can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think.
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Boredom will always remain the greatest enemy of school disciplines. If we remember that children are bored, not only when they don't happen to be interested in the subject or when the teacher doesn't make it interesting, but also when certain working conditions are out of focus with their basic needs, then we can realize what a great contributor to discipline problems boredom really is. Research has shown that boredom is closely related to frustration and that the effect of too much frustration is invariably irritability, withdrawal, rebellious opposition or aggressive rejection of the whole show.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Education a debt due from present to future generations.
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
I was determined to know beans. Walden
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. All reforms which rest simply upon the law, or the threatening of certain penalties, or upon changes in mechanical or outward arrangements, are transitory and futile.... But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.... Education thus conceived marks the most perfect and intimate union of science and art conceivable in human experience.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.
Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider your students to be human beings.
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates--1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it, requires brains.
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations.
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
Skill to do comes of doing.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion . . . It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labour, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.
All I really need to know ... I learned in kindergarten.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
Some children's answers to church school questions - from the Church of England
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot.
The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.
But the ground of a man's [sic] culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.
I do not look on a human being as a machine, made to be kept in action by a foreign force, to accomplish an unvarying succession of motions, to do a fixed amount of work, and then to fall to pieces at death, but as a being of free spiritual powers; and I place little value on any culture but that which aims to bring out these, and to give them perpetual impulse and expansion.
Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
It takes a village to raise a child.
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated.
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is educated.
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
Ye can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think.
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Boredom will always remain the greatest enemy of school disciplines. If we remember that children are bored, not only when they don't happen to be interested in the subject or when the teacher doesn't make it interesting, but also when certain working conditions are out of focus with their basic needs, then we can realize what a great contributor to discipline problems boredom really is. Research has shown that boredom is closely related to frustration and that the effect of too much frustration is invariably irritability, withdrawal, rebellious opposition or aggressive rejection of the whole show.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Education a debt due from present to future generations.
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
I was determined to know beans. Walden
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. All reforms which rest simply upon the law, or the threatening of certain penalties, or upon changes in mechanical or outward arrangements, are transitory and futile.... But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.... Education thus conceived marks the most perfect and intimate union of science and art conceivable in human experience.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.
Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider your students to be human beings.
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates--1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it, requires brains.
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations.
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
Skill to do comes of doing.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion . . . It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labour, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.
All I really need to know ... I learned in kindergarten.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
Some children's answers to church school questions - from the Church of England
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot.
The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.
But the ground of a man's [sic] culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.
I do not look on a human being as a machine, made to be kept in action by a foreign force, to accomplish an unvarying succession of motions, to do a fixed amount of work, and then to fall to pieces at death, but as a being of free spiritual powers; and I place little value on any culture but that which aims to bring out these, and to give them perpetual impulse and expansion.
Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.