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Education Quotes



"I'd decided the campus was just a place to hide. There were some campus freaks who stayed on forever. The whole college scene was soft. They never told you what to expect out there in the real world. They just crammed you with theory and never told you how hard the pavements were. A college education could destroy an individual for life. Books could make you soft. When you put them down, and really went out there, then you needed to know what they never told you."


"Education is the foundation of all human endeavors. It is the most noble of all the elements of human consciousness."


"Education enhances the power of experience and the beauty of life."


"The thought that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day of your life! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"


"The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity."


"Education gives you lights to see, wings to fly, and music to sing."


"Every student adheres to strict discipline."


"The only education is enlightenment."


"The difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda."


"Education enhances the power and beauty of experience."


"Get rid of your useless ceremonials and be educated like your ancient ancestors " Aryabhatta, Brahmagupta, Susruta and others. Make education your purpose of life and spread it among the masses."


"Reading is a choice. The will to do depends the reader. We may or may not do it but when we kill reading, we kill a purposeful mind. Reading a page of a purposeful book per day is not only a great medicine to the mind but also a powerful antidote to ignorance and mediocrity."


"By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head."


"Education helps you to create a new world which is uniquely yours to live and enjoy."


"Education opens the door for an extraordinary life."


"Educate yourself. Learn everything you can and then let knowledge yield to kindness."


"Education is the light switch for the mind. You have to turn it on to see the world in your own way."


"A book is a whole world that you can fit into your pocket."


"I read to learn. I teach to understand. I practice to gain experience and wisdom."


"Education is the manifestation and evolution of the knowledge that is already inherent within you."


"Books are companions, choose your companions wisely."


"Employees go to school for 12 " 18 years merely to impress prospect employers in a 12 " 18 minutes interview."


"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!"


"Education shouldn't be boring. It should stimulate the imagination and fill minds with the joy of knowing."


"But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons."


"They were like waking up to what was being done to their malenky persons and saying that they wanted to go home and like I was a wild beast. They looked like they had been in some big bitva, as indeed they had, and were all bruised and pouty. Well, if they would not go to school they must have there education. And education they had had."



"Teach them to understand biblical principles before converting them."
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