Education Quotes and Sayings - Page 11
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
George Santayana
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
Henry Fielding
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.
Francis Bacon
Most people…are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.
Edward de Bono
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis
When he has learnt that bottinney means a knowledge of plants, he goes and knows ‘em. That’s our system, Nickleby; what do you think of it?
Charles Dickens
People at the top of the tree are those without qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
Peter Ustinov
Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested.
Winston Churchill
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.
St. Francis Xavier
Whenever I look in the glass or see a photograph of myself, I am reminded of Petrarch’s simple statement ‘Nothing is more hideous than an old schoolmaster’!
G. W. Lyttelton
First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards.
Mark Twain
Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.
Chinese Proverbs
Upon the education of the people of this country, the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli
We keep the students within view of their parents; we save them many toils and long foreign journeys; we protect them from robbers. They used to be pillaged while travelling abroad; now, they may study at small cost and short wayfaring, thanks to our liberality.
Frederick II
What sculpture is to a block of marble,
education is to the human soul.
Joseph Addison
The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.
Denis Diderot
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Arthur Koestler
All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
George Eliot
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Henry David Thoreau
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.
Simone Weil
His mind must be strong indeed, if, rising above juvenile credulity, it can maintain a wise infidelity against the authority of his instructors, and the bewitching delusions of their theories.
Thomas Jefferson
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Cicero
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it’s in Hamburger Technology.
Clive James
The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
Duke of Wellington
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
Vladimir Nabokov
Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
Edward de Bono
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty – not marble floors and foundations.
Martin H. Fischer
The ape-like virtues without which no one can enjoy a public school.
Cyril Connolly
We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
Evelyn Waugh
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning,
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,
Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith
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