Education Quotes - Page 52

Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the 'educated' person.

People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

Parents deserve the peace of mind of knowing their children are in good hands. By investing in early childhood educators, we are supporting nurturing child care environments where children can thrive.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

Knowledge is justified belief.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

Only that which is directed toward definite goals, which in turn are founded on sound educational philosophy, can be ultimately meaningful. The principles must always precede the activities.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Education is a vaccine for violence.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

At some point in your life you have to engage with the fact that you are part of a society. Yeah the individual is the most important facet in society but unless every individual is the recipient of free health care, free education decent affordable housing and a proper pension then only the rich and powerful will be individuals and the rest of us will be exploited by them.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.