Education Quotes - Page 3

Any decent society has to be built on trust and love and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice those things as you struggle to build a decent society that can be nonviolent.

All civilized wo/men are prostitutes: Some sell what's between their legs; the rest sell what's between their ears.

A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be.

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

Work, work, and work to obtain education. Later, your education will work for you

The essence of education is not to get a certificate or job but, to be a holistically developed person who can positively impact the society.

My work has been the education I avoided.

School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be.

Somebody is born.
Somebody goes to school.
Somebody learns to conform.
Somebody types a CV.
Somebody gets a job.
Somebody follows orders.
Somebody gets a golden watch.
And then, eventually,
Somebody dies.
And, a Nobody is buried.

A vagina is an uneducated woman’s diploma.

This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed to play when we were small, but then, just before reaching maturity, we were sorted and classified. Being a high school student was the first step toward becoming a domestic animal.

It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation.

The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

There is in every village a torch- the schoolteacher; and an extinguisher: the priest.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.