Education Quotes - Page 10

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don't continually confuse the two. If I could have one wish for education, it would be the systematic ordering of our basic knowledge in such a way that what is known and true can be acted on, while what is superstition, fad, and myth can be recognized as such and used only when there is nothing else to support us in our frustration and despair.

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

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.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason.

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.