What Is Education Quotes

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.

A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.

Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

If you are working or you are running a business you have to set aside time and money to invest in your continued formal education and skills acquisition.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

I think if I had to put a finger on what I consider a good education, a good radical education, it wouldn't be anything about methods or techniques. It would be loving people first.

The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

Education : a debt due from present to future generations.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use

Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property.

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

This isn't higher education studying itself.

Martial arts should be part of every girl's education.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.