Education Quotes - Page 9

• One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

  William Osler

  Healing, Health, Practice Of Medicine

  In Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105

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• Something I tell my students is to read once; then if you still have problems with it, read it a second time. If you still have problems, get drunk and read it a third time... and you might get something out of it.

  Felix Gonzalez-Torres

  Drunk, Might, Students

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• It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.

  John Green

  Passion, Important, Maximizing

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• Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.

  Philip Wylie

  Cities, Church, States

  "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.

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• In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift in the culture of schooling would represent a profound shift in emphasis and in direction.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  School, Profound, Intellectual

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• Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.

  Scott Kahn

  Artist, Guarantees That, Degrees

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• The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Attention, Development

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.32, Routledge

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• Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose,
  To tell what every schoolboy knows.

  Jonathan Swift

  Noses, Lifts, Knows

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift, ...: Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.153

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• I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Joy, Neighborhood, Knows

  A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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• The sole fact of having a school to train creative people is absolute lunacy... The idea of 'pedagogical vision' is ignoble, it has nothing to do with art, it's contrary to art. I really believe in teaching, despite what I say.

  Christian Boltanski

  Art, Believe, Teaching

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• Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is, that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it sometimes is so long before you get to see under the varnish!

  Lady Hester Stanhope

  Lying, Long, People

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• Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.

  Edward Everett

  Army, Liberty, Wages

  "The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer" edited by William B. Fowle, 1852.

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• Twelve years ago I made a mock
  Of filthy trades and traffics;
  I considered what they meant by stock;
  I wrote delightful sapphics;
  I knew the streets of Rome and Troy,
  I supped with fates and Fairies--
  Twelve years ago I was a boy,
  A happy boy at Drury's.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Fate, Boys, Rome

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• Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools

  William Bennett

  School, Years, People

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• It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.

  Philip Sidney

  Keys, Hands, Vices

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.178

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• I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

  Sigrid Undset

  School, Class, Discipline

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The system - the American one, at least - is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Girl, Sports, Brother

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

  Democritus

  Ornaments, Unfortunate, Refuge

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 161), 1948.

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• In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Teaching, Learning

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• I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

  Jesse Stuart

  Teacher, Teaching, Forever

  Jesse Stuart (1958). “Thread that Runs So True”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

  Henry Adams

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teacher

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

  Joseph Addison

  Motivational, Inspiring, Teacher

  The Spectator, No. 215, November 6, 1711.

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• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

  Oscar Wilde

  Graduation, Time, Teaching

  Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

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• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  Will Durant

  Change, Graduation, Teacher

  "Books: The Great Gadfly". "TIME" Magazine, October 8, 1965.

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• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Inspiration, College

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 5, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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