Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joshua Reynolds

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

Karl G. Maeser

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

Karl Kraus

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

Karl Kraus

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

Karl Kraus

A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.

Karl Kraus

I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.

Karl Kraus

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

Karl Kraus

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Karl Kraus

Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

Karl Kraus

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

Kanye West

I fervently believe that, as someone has said before, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.

June Jordan

It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.

Paul Theroux

If people are driving you around to look at animals, that's wonderful. That's educational, but it's not necessarily enlightening and you're not finding out much about yourself.

Paul Krugman

One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the 'high school movement' made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education

Paul Krugman

If you had to explain America's economic success with one word, that word would be "education".... Until now, the results of educational neglect have been gradual - a slow-motion erosion of America's relative position. But things are about to get much worse, as the economic crisis ... deals a severe blow to education across the board.... We need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation's historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.

Patrick Ewing

Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal.

Martin Luther

It is cheering to note that [Martin] Luther (1524) did not see why schools should not be fun as well: "Now since the young must leap and jump, or have something to do, because they have a natural desire for it which should not be restrained (for it is not well to check them in everything) why should we not provide for them such schools, and lay before them such studies?

Martin Luther

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

Martin Luther

I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope and the books of the sophists.

Martin Luther

I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.

Martin Luther

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

Martin Luther

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Martin Luther

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

Martin Luther

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Martin Luther

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

Martin Luther

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

Martin Luther

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

Martin Luther

I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which means are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt.

Nancy Astor

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

... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.

Moses Hadas

I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.

Mortimer Adler

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.

Paulo Freire

Only through communication can human life hold meaning.