Quotes on Education
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.
James Russell Lowell
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will Rogers
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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers
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A man learns by two things. One is reading. The other is association with smarter people.
Will Rogers
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St. Thomas Aquinas warned teachers they must never dig a ditch in front of a student that they failed to fill in. To raise doubts and to ever seek and never find is to be in opposition to education and progress. To discuss freely all sides of all questions without values is to ensure the creation of a generation of uninformed and talkative minds.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
In America we created at the local level and administered at the local level for many years the greatest public school system in the world. Now through something called federal aid to education, we have something called federal interference, and education has been the loser. Quality has declined as federal intervention has increased.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Don't let your learning lead to knowledge; let your learning lead to action.
Jim Rohn
Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.
Confucius
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcom Forbes
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Thomas Huxley
You want to learn from experience, but you want to learn from other people's experience when you can.
Warren Buffett
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Willa Cather
The ascending spiral of greatness in America has risen because industry has produced wealth, which in turn has supported educational institutions, which in turn have supplied leadership to industry in order that with each succeeding generation it might produce more wealth.
Wallace Bennett
Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures, we should put them behind us and go ahead, for vain regretting interferes with the flow of power into our own personalities.
Edith Johnson
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors are finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Lord Chesterfield
The ability for self-government is arrived at only through an extensive training and education.
Calvin Coolidge
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli
It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form correct judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
Nature imitates itself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit.
Blaise Pascal
An expert is a man who knows just that much more about his subject than his associates. Most of us are nearer the top than we think. We fail to realize how easy it is, how necessary it is to learn that fraction more.
William Hutchin
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Brougham
In any given society, the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.
Pierre Proudhon
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim Rohn
The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
Aristotle
Education is important, but dedication is even more important.
Zig Ziglar
Education covers a lot of ground, but it won't cultivate any of it.
Anonymous
Education is what you get when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don't.
Arthur Levitt
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
Napoleon Hill
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The unlearned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
Robert Savage
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison
Training is expensive, but stupid employees are more expensive.
Larry Winget
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Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later... Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. ... A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
Isabel Paterson
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects something it cannot be.
Thomas Jefferson
Rules for Being Human:
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1) You will learn lessons.
2) There are no mistakes - only lessons.
3) A lesson is repeated until it is learned.
4) If you don't learn the easy lessons, they get harder. (Pain is one way the universe gets your attention.)
5) You'll know you've learned a lesson when your actions change.
Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
General knowledge, no matter how great in quantity or variety it may be, is of but little use in the accumulation of money. The faculties of the great universities possess, in the aggregate, practically every form of general knowledge known to civilization. Most of the professors have but little money. They specialize on teaching knowledge, but they do not specialize on the organization, or the use of knowledge.
Napoleon Hill
I believe effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers.
John Wooden
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
It is no profit to have learned well if you neglect to do well.
Publilius Syrus
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.
Ann Radcliffe
The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
Charlie Munger
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.
Alexandre Dumas
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You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.
Galileo Galilei
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner
Learn and grow all you can; serve and befriend all you can; enrich and inspire all you can.
William Arthur Ward
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound
Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.
Paul Johnson
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
Ivan Illich
What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.
Bertrand Russell
School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only Coke provides relief. And other products, too, of course.
John Gatto
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.
H. L. Mencken
If it would be wrong for the government to adopt an official religion, then, for the same reasons, it would be wrong for the government to adopt official education policies. The moral case for freedom of religion stands or falls with that for freedom of education. A society that champions freedom of religion but at the same time countenances state regulation of education has a great deal of explaining to do.
James Otteson
The measure of a man's education is that he takes pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Jacques Barzun
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy - these are precisely what the structures of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another.
John Gatto
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Walter Scott
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
George Bernard Shaw
I don't want my children fed or clothed by the state, but if I had to choose, I would prefer that to their being educated by the state.
Max Belz
When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of schoolchildren.
Albert Shanker
It is not unusual for American students to find their textbooks telling them that injustice was everywhere before the federal government, motivated by nothing but a deep commitment to the public good, intervened to save them from the wickedness of the free market. Alleged "monopolies" dictated prices to hapless consumers. Laborers were forced to accept ever-lower wages. And thanks to their superior economic position, giant corporations effortlessly parried the attempts of anyone foolish enough to try to compete with them.
Ron Paul
Every single aspect of this story is false, though of course this version of our history continues to be peddled and believed. I don't blame people for believing it - it's the only rendition of events they're ever told, unless by some fluke they have learned where to look for the truth. But there is an agenda behind this silly comic-book version of history: to make people terrified of the "unfettered" free market, and to condition them to accept the ever-growing burdens that the political class imposes on the private sector as an unchangeable aspect of life that exists for their own good.
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I've sometimes wondered why those who would never dream of forcibly taking people's money to pay to support a religious belief they do not share have no hesitation at all in taking their money to support an educational philosophy they do not share.
Ron Paul
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Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.
Charlie Munger
In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time - none, zero.
Charlie Munger
Officially the purpose of schools is to teach kids. In fact their primary purpose is to keep kids locked up in one place for a big chunk of the day so adults can get things done.
Paul Graham
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