Education Quotes on Learning & Knowledge – Page 10 | GloryQuotes

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?

William Osler

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

Jean Baudrillard

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

Clifton Fadiman

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

Hu Shih

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

Yakov Smirnoff

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

William Hazlitt

Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.

James E. Rogers

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

Harry S. Truman

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

John Bright

Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.

Tim Holden

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.

Alva Myrdal

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

Robert M. Hutchins

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

Jonathan Kozol

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

William Glasser

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

Bill Frist

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Nancy Astor

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Marian Wright Edelman

Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

Katherine Dunn

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

Joseph Lancaster

The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime.

Edward Tufte

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

Nicolas Roeg

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

James S. Coleman

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

Christopher Fry

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Edward Gibbon

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

Steven Pinker

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

Charles Vest

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

Donna Brazile

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

John Milton

Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.

Mac Thornberry

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

Warren E. Burger

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

William Hazlitt

I would fain grow old learning many things.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

Larry Niven

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.

Jim DeMint

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

Oriana Fallaci

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

Christine Gregoire

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

John Hersey

Polytechnique is a school whose multidisciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.

Philippe Perrin

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

Christopher Dodd

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Douglas Adams

My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

Rudolph A. Marcus

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

Robert Musil