“ To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education. John Dickey
“ I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools. Philip Pullman
“ I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importan… Philip Pullman
“ The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as… Orson Scott Card
“ Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through… Seth Graham-Smith
“ Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“ My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them. Christopher Hitchens
“ To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. Thomas Jefferson
“ [Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively]Don't they teach you anything in your schools?Not about .Pity. I suppose that's what comes of your main education flowing… Rachel Caine
“ The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assi… Plato
“ If you're independent-minded in school, you're probably going to get in trouble very early on. That's not the trait that's being preferred or cultivated. Noam Chomsky
“ I'm not trying to tell you, he said that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so.But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and cr… J.D. Salinger
“ I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, an… J.D. Salinger
“ A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and… Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“ I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectua… Alan Bennett
“ Graduation Speech: You'll have to excuse me if I cry. I've been a little teary-eyed all week the sadness the joy . . . the fact that I'm off my parents' payroll. Melissa Amernick
“ I went to a high school that was so dangerous the school newspaper had an obituary column. Rocky Ray
