Education Quotes - Page 31

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Thousands are the children of poor foreigners, who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect and bad education and evil example of a poor class tend to form others, who, as they mature, swell the ranks of ruffians and criminals. So, at length, a great multitude of ignorant, untrained, passionate, irreligious boys and young men are formed, who become the "dangerous class" of our city.

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective.’ (1923)

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

We will continue to go out onto the streets and to protest, and actively encourage the public to support us in our campaign for free education.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Education : a debt due from present to future generations.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.

All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.

But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. This means better training for our teachers. It means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor. It means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.