Quotes about education
education ignorant-masses learned-person
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
education father book
I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies. Abraham Lincoln
education ignorance envy
I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss. Ani Difranco
education brain facts
A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.
education jobs children
To criminally prosecute a child not old enough to go to the school prom makes no sense, you get much more cooperation from a victim if you give them a safe harbor, a place to live, job training, an education. Amy Klobuchar
education people said
It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual. Allen Klein
education teacher purple
Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear. Allan Sherman
education impediments seems
An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment. Allan Bloom
education college years
The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.
education art passion
Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art....
education army opportunity
A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat. Allen West
educational may appearance
Appearances may be deceiving. Aesop
education nice gossip
If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all.
educational sheep wolves-in-sheeps-clothing
Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.
education joy neighborhood
I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning. A. J. Jacobs
education circles intellectual
In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned. A. N. Wilson
educational struggle class
Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system. A. J. Muste
education urban
Let's do away with the Departments of Education, Energy Commerce, Housing and Urban Development. Richard Mourdock
education justice way
Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual. Abdoulaye Wade
education teaching hippie
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. A. Bartlett Giamatti
education learning men
It is always in season for old men to learn. Aeschylus
education father water
I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling. Agatha Christie
education children learning
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
education men illumination
It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination. Adam Weishaupt
education prejudice world
An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . hunted out of every corner of the world. Adam Smith
education art degrees
Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser. Adam Gopnik
education peace war
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. Abraham Flexner
education college long
In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life. Abraham Maslow
education wisdom humorous
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
education teacher teaching
Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.
education writing age
When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.
education teaching mean
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
education school stepping stone using
I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education. Charlie Trotter