education

education

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know. The Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
When you know better you do better.
The past has no power over the present moment.
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved. The Prince and the Pauper
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. Notebook
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
By seeking and blundering we learn.
The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action. Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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.
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.
The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died. The Republic of Plato