Quotes on Education

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.

The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education will not be able to improve their economic situation.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Hillary Clinton understands that we have to invest in education and jobs for our young people, not more jails or incarceration.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful._x000D_ If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful._x000D_ If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements . . . are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.