Education Quotes on Learning & Knowledge – Page 8 | GloryQuotes

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

Pierre Salinger

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

Edgar Watson Howe

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

Albert J. Nock

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

Mitt Romney

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

Constance Baker Motley

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Jean Giraudoux

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

Marilyn vos Savant

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.

Mark Kennedy

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

Ted Nelson

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

Philip Zimbardo

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

William Penn

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Washington Irving

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

Matthew Simpson

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

James Q. Wilson

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Frederick Douglass

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

Jeffery Deaver

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

James S. Coleman

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

Stanley Kubrick

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

Thomas Merton

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

John Dewey

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

Maria Mitchell

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

William Glasser

I could not agree more. The students of Delaware State often looked to the school as their chance, their hand up, their hope. And they gave their all.

Michael N. Castle

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

Steve Irwin

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

E. B. White

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

Paul Nurse

It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition.

James E. Rogers

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

Ernie Fletcher

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

Henry Charles Carey

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

C. Everett Koop

We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet.

Thomas Menino

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Bryant H. McGill

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Robert M. Hutchins

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

Edward Tufte

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Wilson Mizner

Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University.

Jerry Costello

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Barbara Jordan

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

George Savile

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

Abraham Cahan