Quotes on Education

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.