Education Quotes

If you want to get laid, go to college, but if you want an education, go to the library.

We are living in a world, where what we earn is a function of what we learn.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers, poor urban families just want the best education for their children, who will certainly need it to function in our high-tech and advanced society.

People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-�-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.