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Education Quotes
"When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth."
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"Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it."
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"Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did."
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"If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated."
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"If the ability to read carries the average man no higher than the gossip of his neighbours, if he asks nothing more nourishing out of books and the theatre than he gets hanging about the store, the bar and the street-corner, then culture is bound to be dragged down to him instead of his being lifted up by culture."
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"Education is one of the greatest gift for mankind. Each one of us must seek this enlightenment."
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"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents."
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"There are no boundaries concerning your passion for education. No harm done, no offense given! Those who take education as an ass-suffering task makes it so because they have a phobia for alphabets."
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"The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce."
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"Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world."
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"Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country."
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"Getting an education is the easiest when you love to learn."
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"Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life."
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"There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are impostors, it would be cowardice to disturb the repose of the little ones. Let them sleep, then, in the arms of their nurses, the priests, and both be forgotten together."
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"Some men," Flamel irresistibly added, "think of books merely as tools, others as tooling. I'm between the two; there are days when I use them as scenery, other days when I want them as society; so that, as you see, my library represents a makeshift compromise between looks and brains, and the collectors look down on me almost as much as the students."
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"Knowledge dilutes imagination."
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"Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment."
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"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."
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"You professors, what do you teach your students? Do you instill in them the spirit of possession?"
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"The ultimate purpose of education is to learn how to reveal your own unique beauty."
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"Teach your children this from a very early age: "Everybody in this world is different, you're going to meet people who don't look like you, think like you, or even feel like you. This world is filled with so many different colours and shapes, so many different thoughts and feelings. You should never expect anyone else to be the same as you and you should never expect yourself to be the same as anybody else. But everyone can have so much fun learning about each other and celebrating one another" and when you are all able to do this, the world will begin to change for the better."
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"Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is nourishment, like wheat. A reasoning faculty, deprived of knowledge and wisdom, pines away. We should feel the same pity for minds that do not eat as for stomachs. If there be anything sadder than a body perishing for want of bread, it is a mind dying of hunger for lack of light. All progress tends toward the solution. Some day, people will be amazed. As the human race ascends, the deepest layers will naturally emerge from the zone of distress. The effacement of wretchedness will be effected by a simple elevation level."
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"The boy was a model pupil, forgettable and easily forgotten, and he sent much of his spare time in the back of the English class where there were shelves of old paperbacks, and in the school library, a large room filled with books and old armchairs, where he read stories as enthusiastically as some children ate."
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"I was still unteachable, being inflated with the novelty of heresy."
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"Math is made for idiots, here is what is the proccess in math class. The teacher show you few exercises, show you the formula, show you the way, say everything about the exercises and then she tell you to solve problems. So as for me the proccess is REPEAT!"
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"Literature is sacred knowledge."
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"Education transforms and transcends the human mind toward perfection."
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"I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it."
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"Education n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."
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"A formal education will teach you how to conform with society. Self-education will teach you how to get out of conformity so that you can fill your life with adventure and beauty."
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"Education should enable a student to think rationally, critically, and ultimately to understand, accept, and adapt with new and old ideas."
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