Education Quotes - Page 15

• To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

  Thomas Huxley

  Country, Art, Nature

  Thomas H. Huxley (1900). “A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations”

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• In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

  Walter Annenberg

  College, Doe, World

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• Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Learning, Science

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• True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Funny, Learning, Ignorance

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• "What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Republic, Youth, Teach

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• To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

  Edith Hamilton

  Learning, Curiosity, World

  Quoted in the Saturday Evening Post, 27 Sep 1958.

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

  Alexander Pope

  Spring, Learning, Intellectual

  An Essay on Criticism l. 215 (1711) See Drayton 2

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• 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

  Hippie, Teaching, Learning

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• 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

  Men, Thinking, Giving

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• Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

  Horace Mann

  Safety, Political, Ark

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.220

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• America is the best half-educated country in the world.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Country, America, Half

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• We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Understanding, Stuff

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.333, Delphi Classics

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• In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

  Oscar Wilde

  Squares, Class, Violence

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.16, Heinemann

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• Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspiring, Patriotic, Tyrants

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Economics, Indifferent, Incompetent

  "Infinite Riches: Gems from a Lifetime of Reading" by Leo Calvin Rosten, (p. 165), 1979.

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• Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Learning

  Richard P. Feynman (2008). “Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman”, p.256, Hachette UK

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• School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

  Ivan Illich

  Teaching, School, Accepting

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

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• The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.

  Andre Gide

  Real, Real Education

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• Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Happiness, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 25, 2015

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• By education most have been misled.

  John Dryden

  Misled, Has Beens

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 3, l. 389

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• Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.

  Dale Spender

  War, Women, Fighting

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• Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.

  Jeph Jacques

  Degrees, Ems, Bachelors

  "Number 789: Animal House". "Questionable Content" Comic Strip, questionablecontent.net.

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• Education must be increasingly concerned about the fullest development of all children and youth, and it will be the responsibility of the schools to seek learning conditions which will enable each individual to reach the highest level of learning possible.

  Benjamin Bloom

  Children, Responsibility, Learning

  Benjamin Samuel Bloom (1981). “Evaluation to Improve Learning”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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  If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

  Rachel Carson

  Life, Motivational, Family

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

  Madame de Stael

  Spring, Research, Different

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