Education Quotes

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

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.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

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.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Read in order to live.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.