1,578 Education Quotes

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.

Polly: Education with socialists, it's like sex, all right as long as you don't have to pay for it.

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.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.

I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.

Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after The Princess Diaries. It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy.

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending. As for Tony Adams, I consider him to be a doctor of defence. He is simply outstanding.

By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.

It's easier to learn many other things, if you first learn how to learn.

If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.

The truly successful teacher is the one you will never need again.

I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

We live in a world in which one fool makes many fools but one wise man only a few wise men.

You must not allow your reading to dominate you but you should dominate your reading.

Our natural dispositions may be good; but we have been badly brought up, and are full of anti-social personal ambitions and prejudices and snobberies. Had we not better teach our children to be better citizens than ourselves? We are not doing that at present. The Russians ARE. That is my last word. Think over it.

The schoolboy who uses his Homer to throw at his fellow's head makes perhaps the safest and most rational use of him than any one ever will.

Deep Throat: think about it. There is actually a semi-important figure in American history who is named for a blow-job movie. How do school teachers handle this?

I never watch Sesame Street. I already know most of that stuff.

Wanna help your kids? Leave them the fuck alone!!!

Reading, in contrast to sitting before the screen, is not a purely passive exercise. The child, particularly one who reads a book dealing with real life, has nothing before it but the hieroglyphics of the printed page. Imagination must do the rest; and imagination is called upon to do it. Not so the television screen. Here everything is spelled out for the viewer, visually, in motion, and in all three dimensions. No effort of imagination is called upon for its enjoyment.

Handel is so great and so simple that no one but a professional musician is unable to understand him.

'My kids aren't learning Spanish. They're learning C++.'

But is it really necessary, in 1947, to teach children to use expressions like 'native' and 'Chinaman'?

Our nation is shocked and saddened by the news of the shootings at Virginia Tech today...Schools should be places of safety, and sanctuary, and learning. When that sanctuary is violated, the impact is felt in every American classroom and every American community. Today our nation grieves with those who have lost loved ones at Virginia Tech. We hold the victims in our hearts; we lift them up in our prayers; and we ask a loving God to comfort those who are suffering today.

You can't read a newspaper if you can't read.

Imagine what it's like to be a young person living in a country that is not moving toward reform...While your peers in other parts of the world have received educations that prepare them for the opportunities of a global economy, you have been fed propaganda and conspiracy theories that blame others for your country's shortcomings.

If this nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects what never was and what will never be.

The purpose of keeping any collection of wild animals in confinement should be threefold; first, to conduct as complete as possible a biological study of every species, especially those aspects which are too difficult or too costly to study in the wild and which may help in the preservation of that species in its natural habitat; second, to aid severely endangered species by setting up, under ideal conditions, protected breeding groups and, eventually, a reintroduction programme, so helping to ensure their future survival; thirdly, by the display and explanation of this work to the public, to persuade people of the vital necessity and urgency for the overall conservation of nature.

As the little boy said when asked if he wanted to be a lawyer like his mother, 'Oh no, that's women's work.' (Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions)

The average 'educated' American has been made to believe that, somehow, the United States must lead the world even though hardly anyone has any information at all about those countries we are meant to lead. Worse, we have very little information about our own country and its past. That is why it is not really possible to compare a writer like Howells with any living American writer because Howells thought that it was a good thing to know as much as possible about his own country as well as other countries while our writers today, in common with the presidents and paint manufacturers, live in a present without past among signs whose meanings are uninterpretable.

My general response to boarding school was: anything to get away from that fucking mother of mine. She was a monster.

Every fool I knew had gone to university. I didn't think it necessary. I'd seen some of the results, you know?

On COBOL: 'But Grace, then anyone will be able to write programs!'

Anything which uses science as part of its name isn't: political science, creation science, computer science.

Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics (1981)

Logo for the Macintosh: An Introduction through Object Logo (1992)

La tache de l'educateur est de faire repasser l'esprit de l'enfant par ou a passe celui de ses peres, en passant rapidement par certaines etapes mais en n'en supprimant aucune. A ce compte, l'histoire de la science doit etre notre guide.

Le but principal de l'enseignement mathematique est de developper certaines facultes de l'esprit et parmi elles l'intuition n'est pas la moins precieuse. C'est par elle que le monde mathematique reste en contact avec le monde reel et quand les mathematiques pures pourraient s'en passer, il faudrait toujours y avoir recours pour combler l'abime qui separe le symbole de la realite.

A name made great is a name destroyed. He who does not increase his knowledge decreases it.

'The best of those amongst you is the one who learns the Qur'an and then teaches it to others.'

The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr.

La pensee est la clef de tous les tresors, elle procure les joies de l'avare sans donner ses soucis. Aussi ai-je plane sur le monde, ou mes plaisirs ont toujours ete des jouissances intellectuelles.

La faute des hommes superieurs est de depenser leurs jeunes annees a se rendre dignes de la faveur. Pendant qu'ils thesaurisent, leur force est la science pour porter sans effort le poids d'une puissance qui les fuit; les intrigants, riches de mots et depourvus d'idees, vont et viennent, surprennent les sots, et se logent dans la confiance des demi-niais.

Le calme et le silence necessaires au savant ont je ne sais quoi de doux, d'enivrant comme l'amour. L'exercice de la pensee, la recherche des idees, les contemplations tranquilles de la science nous prodiguent d'ineffables delices, indescriptibles comme tout ce qui participe de l'intelligence, dont les phenomenes sont invisibles a nos sens exterieurs.

L'etude prete une sorte de magie a tout ce qui nous environne.

Les gens sans esprit ressemblent aux mauvaises herbes qui se plaisent dans les bons terrains, et ils aiment d'autant plus etre amuses qu'ils s'ennuient eux-memes.

Science is the language of the Temporal world, Love is that of the Spiritual world. Thus man takes note of more than he is able to explain, while the Angelic Spirit sees and comprehends. Science depresses man; Love exalts the Angel. Science is still seeking, Love has found. Man judges Nature according to his own relations to her; the Angelic Spirit judges it in its relation to Heaven. In short, all things have a voice for the Spirit.

La passion qui, remarquez-le, porte son esprit avec elle, peut donner aux niais, aux sots, aux imbeciles une sorte d'intelligence, surtout pendant la jeunesse.

Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci, lectorem delectando pariterque monendo.

Literature is no longer Necessary Teaching is left.

Scholarship has yielded to the irresistible pull that science exerts on our minds by its self-confidence and the promise of certified knowledge. But, to repeat, the objects of culture are not analyzable, not graspable by the geometric mind. Great works of art are great by virtue of being syntheses of the world; they qualify as art by fusing form and contents into an indivisible whole; what they offer is not 'discourse about,' nor a cipher to be decoded, but a prolonged incitement to finesse. So it is paradoxical that our way of introducing young minds to such works should be the way of scholarship.

'Well, there are some important books that would help you immensely if you were going for a sociology degree, such as: The Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber, Das Kapital by Karl Marx, The Division of Labor in Society by Emile Durkheim. However, these are very involved works and not as much fun as watching the grass grow or staring at a cow.'

The brutal truth is that the bulk of white people in American never had any interest in educating black people, except as this could serve white purposes. It is not the black child's language that is in question, it is not his language that is despised: It is his experience. A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. A child cannot be taught by anyone whose demand, essentially, is that the child repudiate his experience, and all that gives him sustenance, and enter a limbo in which he will no longer be black, and in which he knows that he can never become white. Black people have lost too many black children that way.

Yeah, I graduated with a 4.0: blood alcohol level.

In 1948 I addressed some students at Washington and Lee University, and in the question-answer period one young man observed with asperity, 'But it's easy for you to write. You've traveled.'

It is unimaginable that I graduated from one of America's better colleges, yet I am totally incapable of understanding tax returns.

Before it exploded one night, I went to a four grade, two room schoolhouse and we had textbooks from the 1940s.

All gone. Zelazny was one of the first times I looked at something I had had familiarity with to find the spot where the memory should have been empty, replaced by a scrawled 'Moved South for the Fishing' sign. Calculus was another loss. It was quite upsetting to reach for a skill and find nothing.

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot.

Oh that it were my chief delight To do the things I ought! Then let me try with all my might To mind what I am taught.

There's hardly a more effective way to solve the problems we face in our educational system than to reduce class size. A ratio of no more than 17 students per teacher ensures more 1-on-1 contact, better classroom discipline, you name it.

The best chance disabled students have for productive adult lives comes from being mainstreamed among other students. My daughter Jade is living proof of that. She has a disability, but we have made sure that she has gotten the same kind of exposure as other kids her age. There are a few exceptions; there are students whose special needs are such that mainstreaming won't work for them. But in the majority of cases, mainstreaming should be supported, encouraged, and facilitated for disabled students.

I'm not knocking private schools, but I owe it to my kids to let them grow up in a place where private school isn't required. They're only in school 6-8 hours a day; they have to live in their neighborhood 24 hours a day. I didn't want them growing up in a place where anybody with the means had abandoned their public schools.

Could someone please tell me how this will affect me? Come on, this is Harvard, folks. I came all the way out here to learn this.

I thought to myself, 'This is Harvard', You expect Harvard to be this stuffy, arrogant place. But then you get here and see how bright everyone is - what could be better? I loved it.

Why did they label me a college dropout? The connotation is, he left to go have fun. Not that I served honorably in the Navy, went to college on the GI Bill, trained to be a pro wrestler, and took a job when the opportunity came up. Isn't that what college is for, to prepare you to earn a living? The positive is, I still have three years of eligibility left - if Harvard wants me for its football team.

But even when we are sharpened and quickened intellectually by argument, by discussion, by reading, this does not actually bring about that quality of sensitivity. And you know all those people who are erudite, who read, who theorize, who can discuss brilliantly, are extraordinarily dull people. So I think sensitivity, which destroys mediocrity, is very important to understand. Because most of us are becoming, I am afraid, more mediocre. We are not using that word in any derogative sense at all, but merely observing the fact of mediocrity in the sense of being average, fairly well educated, earning a livelihood and perhaps capable of clever discussion; but this leaves us still bourgeois, mediocre, not only in our attitudes but in our activities.

Did you know freedom exists in a schoolbook?

Ford is rather a sculptor of character than a painter.

Tis impossible to avail our selves of the genuine Powers of Eloquence, without examining in their Elements and first Principles, the Force and Harmony of Numbers, as employed by the Poets and orators of ancient and modern times, and without considering the natural Powers of Imagination, and the Disposition of Mankind to Metaphor and figure, which will require the Knowledge of the true Principles of Grammar, and Rhetoric, and of the best classical Authors. Now to what higher object, to what greater Character, can any Mortal aspire, than to be possessed of all this Knowledge, well digested, and ready at Command, to assist the feeble and Friendless, to discountenance the haughty and lawless, to procure Redress of Wrongs, the Advancement of Right, to assert and maintain Liberty and Virtue, to discourage and abolish Tyranny and Vice?

Are riches, honors, and beauty going out of fashion? Is not the rage for them, on the contrary, increased faster than improvement in knowledge? As long as either of these are in vogue, will there not be emulations and rivalries? Does not the increase of knowledge in any man increase his emulation; and the diffusion of knowledge among men multiply rivalries? Has the progress of science, arts, and letters yet discovered that there are no passions in human nature? no ambition, avarice, or desire of fame? Are these passions cooled, diminished, or extinguished? Is the rage for admiration less ardent in men or women? Have these propensities less a tendency to divisions, controversies, seditions, mutinies, and civil wars than formerly? On the contrary, the more knowledge is diffused, the more the passions are extended, and the more furious they grow.

Among all our presidents from Washington downward, not one was a professor of religion, at least not of more than unitarianism.