Quotes about Education
Ignorance is the father of all fear.
- Herman Melville
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
- Bill Gates
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.
- Marcus Aurelius
The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.
- Cicero
Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a boy.
- Cicero
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
- Cicero
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
- Cicero
We must turn all of our educational efforts to training our children for the choices which will confront them... The child who is to choose wisely must be healthy in mind and body. The children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
- Margaret Mead
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
- James A. Garfield
Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
- Victor Hugo
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
- Aristotle