Top Education Quotes

[I]t takes so little effort and money to get rid of malaria, to bring in clean water, to give people a chance at an education. When you don't have hope, that's when people start to do weird, horrible,...

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by mys...

Education Definition

(n.) The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made...

If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want to encourage them to find out what the truth is, which is probably that you're wrong.

The question must be asked: have we been the beneficiaries or the victims of our education?

I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no...

Two things are needed to raise awareness: education and love. And these go hand in hand because we can be taught to love.

I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowl...

You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great.

Never write a book and let it sit on a shelf

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.

Experience is a sacred education.

I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first.

The authorities of this so-called education take pride in their ship shape structure where they manufacture dumb manikins.

At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.

Knowledge is Power, Power provides Information; Information leads to Education, Education breeds Wisdom; Wisdom is Liberation. People are not liberated because of lack of knowledge.

A book is a sacred gift.

From the beginning, look, what thou desires to see, it shall be shew thee.

PhD made me poorer, without money, but richer in thoughts.

It is hard not to feel that there must be something very wrong with much of what we do in school, if we feel the need to worry so much about what many people call 'motivation'. A child has no stronger...