Quotes on Education

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

Having transgender characters leads to more visibility, which creates education. Education can hopefully lead to everyone treating our community with acceptance and love.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.

There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.