Education Quotes - page 4

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. (Alan Perlis)
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. View quote
Jim Rohn
Men of polite learning and a liberal education. View quote
Matthew Henry
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. View quote
Mark Twain
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. View quote
Mark Twain
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. View quote
Mark Twain
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. View quote
Walter Scott
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. View quote
Joseph Stalin
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. View quote
Albert Einstein
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers. View quote
Aldo Leopold
A liberal education forms a single body. Those, therefore, who from tender years receive instruction in the various forms of learning, recognize the same stamp on all the arts, and an intercourse between all studies, and so they more readily comprehend them all. (Vitruvius)
The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume that there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand. View quote
Louis L'Amour
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't. View quote
Steven Soderbergh
Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. View quote
Clarence Thomas
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. View quote
Horace Mann
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole. View quote
Fritz Zwicky
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. View quote
William James
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. (William James)
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. View quote
Kofi Annan
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. View quote
Frank Zappa
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. View quote
Maria Montessori
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete. View quote
Norman Cousins
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