Education Quotes - Page 2

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

Directing the mind to stay in the present can be a formidable task.

I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination.

You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads - in particular, what he likes and what he disdains - as from what he writes himself.

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding.

Purple Mike promises to be an intriguing read that will teach anyone who wants to know about the highs and lows of drug addiction. Purple Mike is a legal, natural high. Enjoy reading.

Without mathematics, your world becomes foggy! For a clear vision, you need to be educated in the Temple of Mathematics!

Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did?

As I looked out at the glittering waters of the Pacific I was seeing for Carl. He knew that it's not for any one generation to see the completed picture. That's the point. The picture is never completed. There is always so much more that remains to be discovered.

I am never alone, the pages of a book keeps my mind occupied.

Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.

For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes to read - and how he wants to write.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

An educated woman is seen as a human being with a vagina. An uneducated woman is seen as a vagina with a human being.

Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence.

Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.

Writers and learners will write better and learn more if they understand the "why" of what they are studying.

Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything.

Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to use words that have a still less clear meaning and therefore can easily be plugged into any theory.

Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.