Quotes about Education

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools.

Some people need a targeted kind of learning. They need a different approach, like charter schools. There are virtual classrooms that some will do well in. The reality is, if there are no options, if there is just one particular standard, then someone is going to fall through the cracks, as we've seen.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

And part of my vision is to do dynamic videos for kids.

And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge...

It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.

He that wandereth out of the way of knowledge, shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

Live to learn and you will really learn to live.

You never really know something until you teach it to someone else.

A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others. A loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.

The book you don't read can't help you; the seminar you won't attend can't change your life. The business gets better when you get better. Never wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.