Education Quotes - Page 14

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.

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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 is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

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.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness.

Play is the highest form of research.