Education Quotes
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation."
"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better."
"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation."
"The past has no power over the present moment."
"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."
"Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers."
"The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."
"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."
"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."
"Marriage can wait, education cannot."
"A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special."
"[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."
"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody."
"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."
"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."
"Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."
"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."
"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones."
"Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand.""Of course you don't,"said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around."
"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education."
"You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!"
"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."
"Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."
"The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on."
"I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational."
"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."
"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."
"The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know."
"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
"Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education."
"Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community."
"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."
"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire."
"By seeking and blundering we learn."
"Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life."
"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."
"All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!"
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