Talks and Quotes on Education:
Quotes on education
Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax. ~ Joseph Joubert
Educate a man and you educate an individual -- educate a woman and you educate a family. ~ A.Cripps
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ~ George Santayana
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~ T S Eliot
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance that accumulates in the form of inert facts. ~ Henry Adams
You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think. ~ Finley Peter Dunne
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda. ~ Martin Buber
The well-meaning people who talk about education as if it were a substance distributable by coupon in large or small quantities never exhibit any understanding of the truth that you cannot teach anybody anything that he does not want to learn. ~ George Sampson
Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it. ~ B. F. Skinner
Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself. ~ Sybi1 Marshall
I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it. ~ Peter De Vries
I had a good education but it never went to my head, somehow. It should be a journey ending up with you at a different place. It didn't take with me. My degree was a kind of inoculation. I got just enough education to make me immune from it for the rest of my life. ~ Alan Bennett
There is much to be said for apathy in education. ~ E M Forster
The one real object of education is to leave a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ~ Bishop Creighton
Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind. ~ Winston Churchill
If a teacher is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. ~ Kahlil Gibran
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. ~ Maria Callas
Class discussion: letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. ~ Vladimir Nabokov
A teacher should have maximal authority and minimal power. ~ Thomas Szasz
For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught. ~ Sellar & Yeatman
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. ~ E. M. Forster
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you. ~ John Updike
Twenty years of schoolin'/And they put you on the day shift. ~ Bob Dylan
I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour. ~ Evelyn Waugh
If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at this school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home. ~ Anon
I see the mind of a five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness. ~ Sylvia Ashton-Warner
There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child. ~ Thomas Bailey, Florida State Superintendent of Schools
Start a program for gifted children and every parent demands that his child be enrolled. ~ T Bailey
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ~ Jacques Barzun
At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel. ~ Leon Botstein
I never reprimand a boy in the evening - darkness and a troubled mind are a poor combination. ~ Frank L. Boyden, Headmaster, Deerfield Academy
Even while they teach, men learn. ~ Seneca
I was still learning when I taught my last class. ~ Claude Fuess, after 40 years of teaching
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce. ~ Virginia Gildersleeve
Do not appear so scholarly, I pray you. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood. Do you think a Greek name gives more weight to your reasons? ~ Moliere
What makes the desert so beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What a teacher doesn't say is a telling part of what a student hears. ~ Maurice Natanson
We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge. ~ Rutherford Rogers
If you think education is expensive - try ignorance. ~ Derek Bok
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. ~ Thomas Huxley
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. ~ John Ruskin
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. ~ Anna Freud
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~ Robert Frost
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. ~ B F Skinner
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. ~ Benjamin Franklin
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~ Henry Adams
It would be a great advantage to some teachers if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils, and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery. ~ J. F. Boyse
Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself. ~ Tryon Edwards
If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach. ~ Anon
He who can does. He who can't, teaches. ~ George Bernard Shaw
He who can does. He who can't, teaches. He who can't teach, teaches PE. ~ anon
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ~ Oscar Wilde
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~ Chinese proverb
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this afternoon. ~ Anon
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. ~ Kahlil Gibran
The first duty of a lecturer - to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever. ~ Virginia Woolf
It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. ~ Winston Churchill
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences. ~ R. G. Ingersoll
They are able who think they are able. ~ Virgil
Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of a living soul. ~ Carl Jung
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. ~ Henry David Thoreau
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Better go back than go wrong. ~ Anon
Good is not good where better is expected. ~ Thomas Fuller
Better is the enemy of good. ~ Voltaire
What one has to do usually can be done. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do. ~ Lin Yutang
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college. ~ Tom Masson
A good scare is worth more than good advice. ~ Edgar Watson Howe
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. ~ Hodding Carter
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. ~ Harold S. Hulbert
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. ~ Rachel Carson
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency -- and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency -- and a vice. ~ Mark Twain
As admirable as consistency may sometimes be, it is not the truth, and in a way it violates truth by holding the mind in a vise. ~ Roger Rosenblatt
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment. ~ Anon
The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam comes before the lesson. ~ Anon
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. ~ George Santayana
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. ~ George Bernard Shaw
All that I know I learned after I was thirty. ~ Georges Clemenceau
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. ~ Dante
We should take care not to make the intellect our God; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ~ Albert Einstein
Intelligence is derived from two words -- inter and legere -- inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose.' An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between.' He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance. ~ J Martin Rlotsche
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
In all affairs, love, religion, politics or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted. ~ Bertrand Russell
The simplest questions are the hardest to answer. ~ Northrop Frye
Achilles absent was Achilles still. ~ Homer
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. ~ Saki
One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. ~ G B Shaw
If you keep your mind sufficiently opened, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it. ~ William Orton
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from wise men. ~ Proverb
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. ~ German proverb
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. ~ William Hazlitt
Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic, and presentation of the results of this investigation in a carefully organized and documented paper of some length. ~ Cecil Williams & Alan Stevenson
to be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. ~ e. e. cummings
Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it. ~ James Russell Lowell
Success is that old A B C -- ability, breaks and courage. ~ Charles Luckman
I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is -- try to please everybody. ~ Herbert Bayard Swope
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. ~ Nietzsche
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
All human wisdom is summed up in two words -- wait and hope. ~ Alexander Dumas the Elder
There's absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the crowd. Everybody should be free to go very slow . . . what you want, what you're hanging around in the world for, is for something to occur to you. ~ Robert Frost
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. ~ Mark Twain
It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up-to-date. ~ G B Shaw
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders, and each generation grows up into something harder to shock. ~ Cal Craig
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. ~ Clarence Darrow
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense. ~ William Lyon Phelps
Life does not begin at the moment of conception or the moment of birth. It begins when the kids leave home and the dog dies. ~ Anon
My mother didn't breast-feed me. She said she liked me as a friend. ~ Rodney Dangerfield
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. ~ Herbert Hoover
One of the disadvantages of having children is that they eventually get old enough to give you presents they make at school. ~ Robert Byrne
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ~ Gail Godwin
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. ~ Henry Kissinger
I think the world is run by C students. ~ Al McGuire
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me. ~ Woody Allen
You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school. ~ Saki
If it weren't for the last minute nothing would get done. ~ Anon
Remember that a kick in the ass is a step forward. ~ Anon
What is algebra, exactly? Is it those three-cornered things? ~ J M Barrie
I think it would be a good idea. ~ Mahatma Gandhi when asked what he thought of Western civilization
Bad spellers of the world, untie. ~ Grafitto
I took a course in speed reading and was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It's about Russia. ~ Woody Allen
People who think they know everything are very irritating to those of us who do. ~ Anon
If God had wanted sex to be fun, He wouldn't have included children as punishment. ~ Ed Bluestone
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. ~ Erma Bombeck
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of aggravation later in life. ~ R. Byrne
If you're not beguiling by age twelve, forget it. ~ Lucy (Schultz)
When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business. ~ Lenny Bruce
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. ~ Johnny Carson
Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them as possible. I don't like the sight of them. The scale is all wrong. The heads tend to be too big for their bodies, and the hands and feet are a disaster. They keep falling into things. The nakedness of their bad character! We adults have learned how to disguise our terrible character, but children, well, they are like grotesque drawings of us. They should be neither seen nor heard, and no one must make another one. ~ Gore Vidal
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. ~ Sam Levenson
I never met a kid I liked. ~ W C. Fields
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. ~ Will Cuppy
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. ~ Mark Twain
When I see birches bent to right and left\\Across the line of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy's been swinging them. But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay . . . ice storms do that. Once they are bowed. So low for so long, they never right themselves. ~ Robert Frost
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. ~ Bill Cosby
. . . or even two people casually acquainted. ~ Margaret Johnson
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and, for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it. Always. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help. ~ Abraham Lincoln
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ~ Andre Gide
The severity of a teacher is more useful than the indulgence of a parent. ~ Sa'adi
Some days are like being in the 'ten items or less' line behind a dozen people who don't understand the new math. ~ Charlie Brown
How is it that little children are so intelligent while men are so stupid? It must be education that does it. ~ Alexandre Dumas, fils
I'm bilingual. I speak English and educationese. ~ Shirley Hufstedler
Our ideals are like the stars. We can never reach them, but we chart our course by them. ~ Montaigne
The door to success is labeled PUSH. ~ Oscar Wilde
Time, as it grows old, teaches all things. ~ Aeschylus
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. ~ Baltasar Gracian
In all things we learn only from those we love. ~ Goethe
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ~ Aesop
A good deed never goes unpunished. ~ Gore Vidal
Maturity is not a goal, but rather a process. ~ Leo Buscaglia
He who has no hair on his lip cannot be trusted to do anything well. ~ Chinese proverb
Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them. ~ The Dalai Lama of Tibet
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The adult with a capacity for true maturity is one who has grown out of childhood without losing childhood's best traits. ~ Joseph Stone
The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more I am enabled to affirm that I know nothing. ~ Voltaire
True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know. ~ Gore Vidal
The used key is always bright. ~ Benjamin Franklin
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; when you steal from many, it's research. ~ Wilson Mizner
Words are like winter's snowflakes. ~ Homer
Love not what you are but only what you may become. ~ Cervantes
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. ~ Proverb
Wait for the wisest of all counselors - time. ~ Pericles
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit,
Not even in your dreams
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. ~ Kahlil Gibran
Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. ~ John Milton
I am not young enough to know everything. ~ Oscar Wilde
When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going. ~ J. B. Priestley
What is of value and wisdom to one man is nonsense to another. ~ Hermann Hesse
Thinking is like loving and dying -- each of us must do it for himself. ~ Josiah Royce
Education -- that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Philosophy - a route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. ~ Ambrose Bierce
"I just sort of drifted into it." That's almost always the explanation for everything. ~ Gore Vidal
Any fool can make a rule. ~ Henry David Thoreau
After all is said and done, more is said than done. ~ Anon
The trouble ain't that people are ignorant; it's that they know so much that ain't so. ~ Josh Billings
Anyone who has brought up children knows that consistency has absolutely nothing to do with discipline. ~ Bill Cosby
Better that a girl has beauty than brains, because boys see better than they think. ~ Anon
Good teachers must primarily be enthusiasts like writers, painters and priests, they must have a sense of vocation -- a deep-rooted unsentimental desire to do good. ~ Noel Coward, adapted
Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I didn't know the facts of life until I was seventeen. My father never talked about his work. ~ Martin Freud
What Peter tells you about Paul tells you more about Peter than it does about Paul. ~ Anon
One only understands the things that one tames. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One must observe the proper rites. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Common sense is not so common. ~ Voltaire
A man who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. ~ Alexandre Dumas, fils
Shallow brooks are noisy. Deep rivers flow in silent majesty. ~ Anon
Man must first live, then philosophize. ~ Will Durant
Perhaps the most important single cause of a person's success or failure educationally has to do with the question of what he believes about himself. ~ Arthur Combs
The ideal committee is one with me as chairman and two other members in bed with the flu. ~ Lord Milverton
Poets tell many lies. ~ Solon
Bad herdsmen ruin their flocks. ~ Homer
The nail that sticks out is hammered down. ~ Japanese proverb
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as though it were a nail. ~ Abraham Maslow
Those who can't beat the ass beat the saddle. ~ Roman proverb
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk being called sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk showing your true self.
To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called a fool.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair, and to try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest risk in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing. ~ Leo Buscaglia
We think much less than what we know. We know much less than what we love. We love much less than what there is. And to this precise extent, we are much less than what we are. ~ R.D. Laing
What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons. ~ Gore Vidal
Kids! What on earth's the matter with kids today!
Kids! Always rude, obnoxious and in the way!
Why can't they be more like us? Perfect in every way.
What's the matter with kids today? ~ from the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie
Each path is only one of a million paths. Therefore, you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path. If you feel that you must not follow it, you need not stay with it under any circumstances. Any path is only a path. There is no affront to yourself or others in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do. But your decision to keep on the path or to leave it must be free of fear and ambition. I warn you: look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. It is this: does this path have a heart? All paths are the same. They lead nowhere. They are paths going through the brush or into the brush or under the brush. Does this path have a heart is the only question. If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, then it is of no use. ~ Carlos Castaneda
There is always room at the top. ~ Daniel Webster
Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers and Presidents have never yet been invested. ~ Winston Churchill
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. ~ Oscar Wilde
Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one. ~ Gore Vidal
There is no such thing as a true account of anything. ~ Gore Vidal
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
To learn and not to think over what you have learned is perfectly useless. To think without having learned is dangerous. ~ Gore Vidal
Nothing is true except from a single point of view. ~ Gore Vidal
No one has ever taught anything to anybody. ~ Carl Rogers
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. ~ Lord Brougham
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ~ Aristotle
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing. ~ Ilya Ehrenburg
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. ~ Emerson
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. ~ Anatole France
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. ~ Robert Frost
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. ~ Robert Goheen
There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture. ~ Paul Goodman
Much learning does not teach understanding. ~ Heraclitus
State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules. ~ Thomas Jefferson
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. ~ J. F. Kennedy
I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. ~ Clark Kerr
Our schools have become vast factories for the manufacture of robots. We no longer send our young to them primarily to be taught and given the tools of thought, no longer primarily to be informed and acquire knowledge; but to be 'socialized.' ~ Robert Lindner
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. ~ H L Mencken
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. ~ John Stuart Mill
Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom, and all the rubbish, good sense. ~ Moliere
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. ~ Plato
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. ~ Plato
Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless. ~ Plutarch
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in. ~ Will Rogers
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have. ~ Arthur E. Morgan
Education, like neurosis, begins at home. ~ Milton Sapirstein
When we give proper weight to local conditions, any generalization is a working hypothesis, not a conclusion. ~ Lee Cronbach
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. ~ Mark Twain
How we hate this solemn EGO that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes. ~ Emerson
Tim was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. ~ Benjamin Franklin
The scholar seeks, the artist finds. ~ Andre Gide
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books. ~ William Hazlitt
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten. ~ Samuel Johnson
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~ Jonathan Kozol, On Being a Teacher
Scholarship is polite argument. ~ Philip Rieff
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. ~ Lionel Trilling
Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honor than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life. ~ Aristotle
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. ~ Emerson
One teacher is better than two books. ~ German proverb
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form. ~ Goethe
The greater part of the people we assign to educate our children we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that they can give what they have not received, a thing which cannot be otherwise acquired. ~ Giacomo Leopardi
It is easier for a teacher to command than to teach. ~ John Locke
An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear. ~ Nietzsche
He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth. ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught. ~ Agnes Repplier
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. ~ Philip Wylie
Knowledge is power. ~ Francis Bacon
Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on reading, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative, and made their thoughts weak. ~ Clarence Day
He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. ~ Ecclesiastes
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it. ~ Dostoevsky
He who does not know one thing knows another. Kenyan proverb
It is one thing to know one thing and another thing to know another thing. ~ A. R. Ammons
Rather know nothing than half-know much. ~ Nietzsche
So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it. ~ James Thurber
Educate a man and you educate an individual -- educate a woman and you educate a family. ~ A.Cripps
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ~ George Santayana
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~ T S Eliot
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance that accumulates in the form of inert facts. ~ Henry Adams
You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think. ~ Finley Peter Dunne
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda. ~ Martin Buber
The well-meaning people who talk about education as if it were a substance distributable by coupon in large or small quantities never exhibit any understanding of the truth that you cannot teach anybody anything that he does not want to learn. ~ George Sampson
Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it. ~ B. F. Skinner
Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself. ~ Sybi1 Marshall
I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it. ~ Peter De Vries
I had a good education but it never went to my head, somehow. It should be a journey ending up with you at a different place. It didn't take with me. My degree was a kind of inoculation. I got just enough education to make me immune from it for the rest of my life. ~ Alan Bennett
There is much to be said for apathy in education. ~ E M Forster
The one real object of education is to leave a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ~ Bishop Creighton
Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind. ~ Winston Churchill
If a teacher is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. ~ Kahlil Gibran
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. ~ Maria Callas
Class discussion: letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. ~ Vladimir Nabokov
A teacher should have maximal authority and minimal power. ~ Thomas Szasz
For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught. ~ Sellar & Yeatman
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. ~ E. M. Forster
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you. ~ John Updike
Twenty years of schoolin'/And they put you on the day shift. ~ Bob Dylan
I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour. ~ Evelyn Waugh
If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at this school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home. ~ Anon
I see the mind of a five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness. ~ Sylvia Ashton-Warner
There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child. ~ Thomas Bailey, Florida State Superintendent of Schools
Start a program for gifted children and every parent demands that his child be enrolled. ~ T Bailey
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ~ Jacques Barzun
At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel. ~ Leon Botstein
I never reprimand a boy in the evening - darkness and a troubled mind are a poor combination. ~ Frank L. Boyden, Headmaster, Deerfield Academy
Even while they teach, men learn. ~ Seneca
I was still learning when I taught my last class. ~ Claude Fuess, after 40 years of teaching
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce. ~ Virginia Gildersleeve
Do not appear so scholarly, I pray you. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood. Do you think a Greek name gives more weight to your reasons? ~ Moliere
What makes the desert so beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What a teacher doesn't say is a telling part of what a student hears. ~ Maurice Natanson
We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge. ~ Rutherford Rogers
If you think education is expensive - try ignorance. ~ Derek Bok
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. ~ Thomas Huxley
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. ~ John Ruskin
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. ~ Anna Freud
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~ Robert Frost
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. ~ B F Skinner
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. ~ Benjamin Franklin
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~ Henry Adams
It would be a great advantage to some teachers if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils, and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery. ~ J. F. Boyse
Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself. ~ Tryon Edwards
If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach. ~ Anon
He who can does. He who can't, teaches. ~ George Bernard Shaw
He who can does. He who can't, teaches. He who can't teach, teaches PE. ~ anon
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ~ Oscar Wilde
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~ Chinese proverb
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this afternoon. ~ Anon
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. ~ Kahlil Gibran
The first duty of a lecturer - to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever. ~ Virginia Woolf
It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. ~ Winston Churchill
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences. ~ R. G. Ingersoll
They are able who think they are able. ~ Virgil
Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of a living soul. ~ Carl Jung
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. ~ Henry David Thoreau
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Better go back than go wrong. ~ Anon
Good is not good where better is expected. ~ Thomas Fuller
Better is the enemy of good. ~ Voltaire
What one has to do usually can be done. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do. ~ Lin Yutang
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college. ~ Tom Masson
A good scare is worth more than good advice. ~ Edgar Watson Howe
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. ~ Hodding Carter
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. ~ Harold S. Hulbert
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. ~ Rachel Carson
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency -- and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency -- and a vice. ~ Mark Twain
As admirable as consistency may sometimes be, it is not the truth, and in a way it violates truth by holding the mind in a vise. ~ Roger Rosenblatt
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment. ~ Anon
The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam comes before the lesson. ~ Anon
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. ~ George Santayana
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. ~ George Bernard Shaw
All that I know I learned after I was thirty. ~ Georges Clemenceau
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. ~ Dante
We should take care not to make the intellect our God; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ~ Albert Einstein
Intelligence is derived from two words -- inter and legere -- inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose.' An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between.' He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance. ~ J Martin Rlotsche
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
In all affairs, love, religion, politics or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted. ~ Bertrand Russell
The simplest questions are the hardest to answer. ~ Northrop Frye
Achilles absent was Achilles still. ~ Homer
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. ~ Saki
One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. ~ G B Shaw
If you keep your mind sufficiently opened, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it. ~ William Orton
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from wise men. ~ Proverb
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. ~ German proverb
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. ~ William Hazlitt
Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic, and presentation of the results of this investigation in a carefully organized and documented paper of some length. ~ Cecil Williams & Alan Stevenson
to be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. ~ e. e. cummings
Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it. ~ James Russell Lowell
Success is that old A B C -- ability, breaks and courage. ~ Charles Luckman
I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is -- try to please everybody. ~ Herbert Bayard Swope
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. ~ Nietzsche
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
All human wisdom is summed up in two words -- wait and hope. ~ Alexander Dumas the Elder
There's absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the crowd. Everybody should be free to go very slow . . . what you want, what you're hanging around in the world for, is for something to occur to you. ~ Robert Frost
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. ~ Mark Twain
It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up-to-date. ~ G B Shaw
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders, and each generation grows up into something harder to shock. ~ Cal Craig
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. ~ Clarence Darrow
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense. ~ William Lyon Phelps
Life does not begin at the moment of conception or the moment of birth. It begins when the kids leave home and the dog dies. ~ Anon
My mother didn't breast-feed me. She said she liked me as a friend. ~ Rodney Dangerfield
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. ~ Herbert Hoover
One of the disadvantages of having children is that they eventually get old enough to give you presents they make at school. ~ Robert Byrne
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ~ Gail Godwin
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. ~ Henry Kissinger
I think the world is run by C students. ~ Al McGuire
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me. ~ Woody Allen
You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school. ~ Saki
If it weren't for the last minute nothing would get done. ~ Anon
Remember that a kick in the ass is a step forward. ~ Anon
What is algebra, exactly? Is it those three-cornered things? ~ J M Barrie
I think it would be a good idea. ~ Mahatma Gandhi when asked what he thought of Western civilization
Bad spellers of the world, untie. ~ Grafitto
I took a course in speed reading and was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It's about Russia. ~ Woody Allen
People who think they know everything are very irritating to those of us who do. ~ Anon
If God had wanted sex to be fun, He wouldn't have included children as punishment. ~ Ed Bluestone
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. ~ Erma Bombeck
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of aggravation later in life. ~ R. Byrne
If you're not beguiling by age twelve, forget it. ~ Lucy (Schultz)
When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business. ~ Lenny Bruce
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. ~ Johnny Carson
Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them as possible. I don't like the sight of them. The scale is all wrong. The heads tend to be too big for their bodies, and the hands and feet are a disaster. They keep falling into things. The nakedness of their bad character! We adults have learned how to disguise our terrible character, but children, well, they are like grotesque drawings of us. They should be neither seen nor heard, and no one must make another one. ~ Gore Vidal
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. ~ Sam Levenson
I never met a kid I liked. ~ W C. Fields
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. ~ Will Cuppy
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. ~ Mark Twain
When I see birches bent to right and left\\Across the line of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy's been swinging them. But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay . . . ice storms do that. Once they are bowed. So low for so long, they never right themselves. ~ Robert Frost
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. ~ Bill Cosby
. . . or even two people casually acquainted. ~ Margaret Johnson
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and, for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it. Always. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help. ~ Abraham Lincoln
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ~ Andre Gide
The severity of a teacher is more useful than the indulgence of a parent. ~ Sa'adi
Some days are like being in the 'ten items or less' line behind a dozen people who don't understand the new math. ~ Charlie Brown
How is it that little children are so intelligent while men are so stupid? It must be education that does it. ~ Alexandre Dumas, fils
I'm bilingual. I speak English and educationese. ~ Shirley Hufstedler
Our ideals are like the stars. We can never reach them, but we chart our course by them. ~ Montaigne
The door to success is labeled PUSH. ~ Oscar Wilde
Time, as it grows old, teaches all things. ~ Aeschylus
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. ~ Baltasar Gracian
In all things we learn only from those we love. ~ Goethe
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ~ Aesop
A good deed never goes unpunished. ~ Gore Vidal
Maturity is not a goal, but rather a process. ~ Leo Buscaglia
He who has no hair on his lip cannot be trusted to do anything well. ~ Chinese proverb
Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them. ~ The Dalai Lama of Tibet
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The adult with a capacity for true maturity is one who has grown out of childhood without losing childhood's best traits. ~ Joseph Stone
The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more I am enabled to affirm that I know nothing. ~ Voltaire
True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know. ~ Gore Vidal
The used key is always bright. ~ Benjamin Franklin
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; when you steal from many, it's research. ~ Wilson Mizner
Words are like winter's snowflakes. ~ Homer
Love not what you are but only what you may become. ~ Cervantes
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. ~ Proverb
Wait for the wisest of all counselors - time. ~ Pericles
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit,
Not even in your dreams
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. ~ Kahlil Gibran
Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. ~ John Milton
I am not young enough to know everything. ~ Oscar Wilde
When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going. ~ J. B. Priestley
What is of value and wisdom to one man is nonsense to another. ~ Hermann Hesse
Thinking is like loving and dying -- each of us must do it for himself. ~ Josiah Royce
Education -- that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Philosophy - a route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. ~ Ambrose Bierce
"I just sort of drifted into it." That's almost always the explanation for everything. ~ Gore Vidal
Any fool can make a rule. ~ Henry David Thoreau
After all is said and done, more is said than done. ~ Anon
The trouble ain't that people are ignorant; it's that they know so much that ain't so. ~ Josh Billings
Anyone who has brought up children knows that consistency has absolutely nothing to do with discipline. ~ Bill Cosby
Better that a girl has beauty than brains, because boys see better than they think. ~ Anon
Good teachers must primarily be enthusiasts like writers, painters and priests, they must have a sense of vocation -- a deep-rooted unsentimental desire to do good. ~ Noel Coward, adapted
Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I didn't know the facts of life until I was seventeen. My father never talked about his work. ~ Martin Freud
What Peter tells you about Paul tells you more about Peter than it does about Paul. ~ Anon
One only understands the things that one tames. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One must observe the proper rites. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Common sense is not so common. ~ Voltaire
A man who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. ~ Alexandre Dumas, fils
Shallow brooks are noisy. Deep rivers flow in silent majesty. ~ Anon
Man must first live, then philosophize. ~ Will Durant
Perhaps the most important single cause of a person's success or failure educationally has to do with the question of what he believes about himself. ~ Arthur Combs
The ideal committee is one with me as chairman and two other members in bed with the flu. ~ Lord Milverton
Poets tell many lies. ~ Solon
Bad herdsmen ruin their flocks. ~ Homer
The nail that sticks out is hammered down. ~ Japanese proverb
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as though it were a nail. ~ Abraham Maslow
Those who can't beat the ass beat the saddle. ~ Roman proverb
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk being called sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk showing your true self.
To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called a fool.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair, and to try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest risk in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing. ~ Leo Buscaglia
We think much less than what we know. We know much less than what we love. We love much less than what there is. And to this precise extent, we are much less than what we are. ~ R.D. Laing
What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons. ~ Gore Vidal
Kids! What on earth's the matter with kids today!
Kids! Always rude, obnoxious and in the way!
Why can't they be more like us? Perfect in every way.
What's the matter with kids today? ~ from the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie
Each path is only one of a million paths. Therefore, you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path. If you feel that you must not follow it, you need not stay with it under any circumstances. Any path is only a path. There is no affront to yourself or others in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do. But your decision to keep on the path or to leave it must be free of fear and ambition. I warn you: look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. It is this: does this path have a heart? All paths are the same. They lead nowhere. They are paths going through the brush or into the brush or under the brush. Does this path have a heart is the only question. If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, then it is of no use. ~ Carlos Castaneda
There is always room at the top. ~ Daniel Webster
Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers and Presidents have never yet been invested. ~ Winston Churchill
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. ~ Oscar Wilde
Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one. ~ Gore Vidal
There is no such thing as a true account of anything. ~ Gore Vidal
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
To learn and not to think over what you have learned is perfectly useless. To think without having learned is dangerous. ~ Gore Vidal
Nothing is true except from a single point of view. ~ Gore Vidal
No one has ever taught anything to anybody. ~ Carl Rogers
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. ~ Lord Brougham
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ~ Aristotle
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing. ~ Ilya Ehrenburg
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. ~ Emerson
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. ~ Anatole France
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. ~ Robert Frost
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. ~ Robert Goheen
There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture. ~ Paul Goodman
Much learning does not teach understanding. ~ Heraclitus
State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules. ~ Thomas Jefferson
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. ~ J. F. Kennedy
I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. ~ Clark Kerr
Our schools have become vast factories for the manufacture of robots. We no longer send our young to them primarily to be taught and given the tools of thought, no longer primarily to be informed and acquire knowledge; but to be 'socialized.' ~ Robert Lindner
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. ~ H L Mencken
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. ~ John Stuart Mill
Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom, and all the rubbish, good sense. ~ Moliere
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. ~ Plato
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. ~ Plato
Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless. ~ Plutarch
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in. ~ Will Rogers
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have. ~ Arthur E. Morgan
Education, like neurosis, begins at home. ~ Milton Sapirstein
When we give proper weight to local conditions, any generalization is a working hypothesis, not a conclusion. ~ Lee Cronbach
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. ~ Mark Twain
How we hate this solemn EGO that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes. ~ Emerson
Tim was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. ~ Benjamin Franklin
The scholar seeks, the artist finds. ~ Andre Gide
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books. ~ William Hazlitt
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten. ~ Samuel Johnson
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~ Jonathan Kozol, On Being a Teacher
Scholarship is polite argument. ~ Philip Rieff
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. ~ Lionel Trilling
Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honor than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life. ~ Aristotle
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. ~ Emerson
One teacher is better than two books. ~ German proverb
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form. ~ Goethe
The greater part of the people we assign to educate our children we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that they can give what they have not received, a thing which cannot be otherwise acquired. ~ Giacomo Leopardi
It is easier for a teacher to command than to teach. ~ John Locke
An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear. ~ Nietzsche
He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth. ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught. ~ Agnes Repplier
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. ~ Philip Wylie
Knowledge is power. ~ Francis Bacon
Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on reading, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative, and made their thoughts weak. ~ Clarence Day
He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. ~ Ecclesiastes
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it. ~ Dostoevsky
He who does not know one thing knows another. Kenyan proverb
It is one thing to know one thing and another thing to know another thing. ~ A. R. Ammons
Rather know nothing than half-know much. ~ Nietzsche
So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it. ~ James Thurber