Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting a compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them.

Malcolm X

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

The focus of the event is education and fun.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Albert Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Albert Einstein

Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.

Education is an important thing in Pacific Grove. If you go to the schools, you'll see a lot of parents volunteering.

Tom Stoppard

I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all education.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Noah Webster

The education of youth, an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on which both law and gospel rest for success.

John Gray

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Leonardo da Vinci

I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: "Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

Lady Gregory

There's more learning than is taught in books.

Neil Postman

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

Marco Rubio

Our higher education system is controlled by what amounts to a cartel of existing colleges and universities, which use their power over the accreditation process to block innovative, low-cost competitors from entering the market.

Marco Rubio

I'm all for reforming our higher education system, in the 21st century, to have the skills you need for a middle-class job, you need higher education of some form or fashion. It may not be a four-year degree. The problem is he just wants to pour that additional money into the broken, existing system.

Kofi Annan

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Ralph Ellison

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.

John F. Kennedy

I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.

James Madison

It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly by our own, as a necessary safeguard against the danger of degeneracy, to which republics are liable, as well as other governments, though in a less degree than others.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles or our bombers, not our production economy, not even our democratic system of government. For all of these are worthless if we lack the brain power to support and sustain them.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.

Lyndon B. Johnson

In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.

Malcolm Bradbury

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.