Quotes about Education

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

Live, love and learn

Good books are over your head; they would not be good for you if they were not. And books that are over your head weary you unless you can reach up to them and pull yourself up their level.

You must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. And unless you stretch, you will not learn.

We must also realize-students, teachers, and laymen alike-that even when we have accomplished the task that lies before us, we will not have accomplished the whole task. We must be more than a nation of functional literates. We must become a nation of truly competent readers, recognizing all that the word competent implies. Nothing less wil satisfy the needs of the world that is coming.

As Thomas Hobbes said, "If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

In tackling a difficult book for the first time, read it through without ever stopping to look up or ponder the things you do not understand right away.

Anyone who fails to consult the explanatory notes and the list of abbreviations at the beginning of a dictionary has only himself to blame if he is not able to use it well.

Analytical reading is preeminently for the sake of understanding

2. STUDY THE TABLE OF CONTENTS

If one could enumerate all the essentials which a sound educational program consider, I would say that the techniques of communication, which make for literacy, are our first obligation, and more so in a cemocracy than in any other kind of society, because it depends on a literate electorate.

1. WHAT IS THE BOOK ABOUT AS A WHOLE?