Quotes about Education
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
- Joseph Addison
More than anything, the arts are the best teaching tool.
- Julie Andrews
We need a lot more technically literate people. The computers are the tools that are going to solve essentially all problems, and the people who can use them better will be more effective.
- Tobias Lutke
Following Rice, I went to Caltech for a Ph.D in physics, without any strong idea of what I wanted to do for a thesis topic.
- Woodrow Wilson
The notion that you have to hold something in your head seems to have been forgotten. It is an absurdity that children learn to investigate topics without having dates in their heads, or the facts.
- David Starkey
We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
- Lewis Carroll
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
- Jimmy Carter
Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.
- Sean Covey
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.
- Seneca
The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
- Seneca
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When Helen's father compliments Annie on the fact that she has taught Helen the rudiments of discipline, Annie, discouraged, answers: ". . . to do nothing but obey is—no gift, obedience without understanding is a—blindness, too.
- Ayn Rand