Quotes about Education

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.

Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.

We need to teach our youth American values, kindness, honesty,respect.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.

God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms.

Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.

The crowd is the same everywhere, in all periods and cultures; it remains essentially the same among men of the most diverse origin, education and language. Once in being, it spreads with the utmost violence. Few can resist its contagion; it always wants to go on growing and there are no inherent limits to its growth. It can arise wherever people are together, and its spontaneity and suddenness are uncanny.

Wenn man Bücher bei sich trug, waren Handgreiflichkeiten zu vermeiden. Er trug immer Bücher bei sich.

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

To learn is to receive, and then it is to give, and then it is to give again.