Quotes on Education

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

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

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

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

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

August Wilson is the one writer that writes about men like my father, who had a fifth grade education, who was a janitor at McDonald's.

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.

Education and health were always matters of charity. You educated children and you helped the sick because they were good things to do, not because you were going to make money out of them. If you let the money-making principle, the profit-seeking motive, anywhere near education and health, things go bad.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.