Education Quotes - Page 13

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."
"And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

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.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)

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.

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.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."

(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)