What Is Education Quotes

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.

Without education, there is no hope for our people and without hope, our future is lost

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

The only difference between 'propaganda' and 'education,' really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe in is propaganda.

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew.

I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.

Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is what you get from not reading it.