Education famous quotes
03-18-2025
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
-- A. A. Milne -
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
-- A. N. Wilson -
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell -
The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell -
Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
-- Abdoulaye Wade -
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
-- Abigail Adams -
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
-- Abraham Flexner -
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
All I have learned, I learned from books.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
-- Abu Bakr -
Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
-- Adam Gopnik -
It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.
-- Adolf Hitler -
A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The folkish state must not adjust its entire educational work primarily to the inoculation of mere knowledge, but to the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies. The training of mental abilities is only secondary. And here again, first place must be taken by the development of character, especially the promotion of will-power and determination, combined with the training of joy in responsibility, and only in last place comes scientific schooling.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
-- Agatha Christie -
There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
-- Agnes Repplier -
It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
-- Agnes Repplier -
In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.
-- Aime Martin -
My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
-- Akio Morita -
Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
-- Al Capp -
Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.
-- Al MacInnis -
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
-- Al McGuire -
Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.
-- Al Pacino -
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
-- Al Sharpton -
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
-- Alan K. Simpson -
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
-- Alan K. Simpson -
We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free.
-- Alan Keyes -
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
-- Alan Watts -
Your choice of armor was your intellect.
-- Alanis Morissette -
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein -
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
-- Albert Einstein -
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein -
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
-- Albert Einstein -
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-- Albert Einstein -
A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.
-- Albert Einstein -
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
-- Albert Einstein -
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein -
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.
-- Albert Einstein -
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
-- Albert Einstein -
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
-- Albert Einstein -
Never memorize something that you can look up.
-- Albert Einstein -
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
-- Albert Einstein -
It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry.
-- Albert Einstein -
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
-- Albert Einstein -
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
-- Albert Einstein -
All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.
-- Albert Einstein -
By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.
-- Albert Einstein -
There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.
-- Albert Shanker -
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
-- Aldous Huxley -
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it's more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.
-- Aldous Huxley -
To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.
-- Alexander H. Stephens -
It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions with which they were continually agitated, and at the rapid succession of revolutions by which they were kept in a state of perpetual vibration between the extremes of tyranny and anarchy . . . great improvement . . . were either not known at all, or imperfectly known to the ancients.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
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.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
-- Alexander Pope -
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
-- Alexander Pope -
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.
-- Alexander Pope -
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
-- Alexander Pope -
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
-- Alexander Pope -
The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.
-- Alexander Sutherland Neill -
One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds.
-- Alexis Arguello -
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
-- Alfred Adler -
There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).
-- Alfred Marshall -
From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to learn as long as they are not fit for any other occupation, until they are able to read English writing well.
-- Alfred the Great -
It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.
-- Alice Duer Miller -
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
-- Alice Miller -
Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
-- Alice Walker -
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
-- Allan Bloom -
The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
-- Allan Bloom -
Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art....
-- Allan Bloom -
The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.
-- Allan Bloom -
An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.
-- Allan Bloom
