Quotes about education
education learning progress-of-society
Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind. Winston Churchill
education heart rome
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on the margins of the pages ... From Gibbon I went to Macauley. I had learnt The Lays of Ancient Rome by heart, and loved them; and of course I knew he had written a history; but I had never read a page of it ... I accepted all Macauley wrote as gospel, and I was grieved to read his harsh judgements upon the Great Duke of Marlborough.
education school two
How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.
education latin school
In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.
education littles firsts
It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.
education country privilege
The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.
education teaching college
I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.
education fighting political
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
educational taught unschooling
I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.
education priests good-school
One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests. Robert Green Ingersoll
education men increase
The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.
education school men
As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.
education college pebbles
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
education wisdom school
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
educational people imagine
If we got an educational program going, we could tell people, "Instead of butter, use avocado." That's something we eat, it has the good fat, and it has a good texture, and it tastes better. Just imagine if you substituted that. Or if we switched to olive oil, the extra virgin olive oil, we could still have our taquitos, but put a little oil on them and put them in the oven and bake them. Sandra Cisneros
education school learning
There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other. Samuel Johnson
education reading men
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
education experts good-and-evil
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
education honesty integrity
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
education curiosity genius
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
education book biology
Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took. Sam Cooke
education children new-beginnings
Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children the values and the virtues handed down to us by our families, to have the courage to defend those values and the willingess to sacrifice for them. Let us pledge to restore, in our time, the American spirit of voluntary service, of cooperation, of private and community initiative, a spirit that flows like a deep and mighty river through the history of our nation. Ronald Reagan
education ideas yesterday
A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow.
education teaching rewards
Learning is its own exceeding great reward. William Hazlitt
education teaching long
That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.
education learning may
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
education writing able
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
education children ignorance
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
education teacher money
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
education men thoughtful
Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man. Wendell Phillips
education children struggle
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
education sports victory-and-defeat
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
educational tree division
If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree. Wendell Berry