An Education Quotes

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

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

The past has no power over the present moment.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.

What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. people so tired mutilated either by love or no love. people just are not good to each other one on one. the rich are not good to the rich the poor are not good to the poor. we are afraid. our educational system tells us that we can all be big-ass winners. it hasn't told us about the gutters or the suicides. or the terror of one person aching in one place alone untouched unspoken to watering a plant.

You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand." "Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.

The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.

Dignity /ˈdignitē/ noun 1. The moment you realize that the person you cared for has nothing intellectually or spiritually to offer you, but a headache. 2. The moment you realize God had greater plans for you that don’t involve crying at night or sad Pinterest quotes. 3. The moment you stop comparing yourself to others because it undermines your worth, education and your parent’s wisdom. 4. The moment you live your dreams, not because of what it will prove or get you, but because that is all you want to do. People’s opinions don’t matter. 5. The moment you realize that no one is your enemy, except yourself. 6. The moment you realize that you can have everything you want in life. However, it takes timing, the right heart, the right actions, the right passion and a willingness to risk it all. If it is not yours, it is because you really didn’t want it, need it or God prevented it. 7. The moment you realize the ghost of your ancestors stood between you and the person you loved. They really don't want you mucking up the family line with someone that acts anything less than honorable. 8. The moment you realize that happiness was never about getting a person. They are only a helpmate towards achieving your life mission. 9. The moment you believe that love is not about losing or winning. It is just a few moments in time, followed by an eternity of situations to grow from. 10. The moment you realize that you were always the right person. Only ignorant people walk away from greatness.