Education Quotes

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

Books, the children of the brain.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

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

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Responsibility educates.

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

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 educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.