Quotes about Education

I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Bard.

Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn.

Then, again, there are three things which every artificer must possess if he is to effect anything,—nature, education, practice. Nature is to be judged by capacity, education by knowledge, practice by its fruit.

Of these plays, the most inoffensive are comedies and tragedies, that is to say, the dramas which poets write for the stage, and which, though they often handle impure subjects, yet do so without the filthiness of language which characterizes many other performances; and it is these dramas which boys are obliged by their seniors to read and learn as a part of what is called a liberal and gentlemanly education.

The education of the human race, represented by the people of God, has advanced, like that of an individual, through certain epochs, or, as it were, ages, so that it might gradually rise from earthly to heavenly things, and from the visible to the invisible.

He that will teach himself in school, becomes a scholar to a fool.

Beware the man of a single book.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth.

Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.

The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it — that's how we learn.