Quotes about Education
The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.
- John Piper
Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.
- John Wesley
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
- Joseph Addison
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
- Oscar Wilde
All men desire by nature to know.
- Aristotle
Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
- Charles Kettering
The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to.
- Ezra Taft Benson
We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.
- CS Lewis
Education is an asset no man can take away.
- George Eliot
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.
- Martin Luther