Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything, and hence that it is a sign of ignorance to be surprised or puzzled by anything.
[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.
Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.
no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government.
You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.
In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.
Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.
If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.
I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.
That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.
If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?
But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. This means better training for our teachers. It means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor. It means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation.
Going to our school is an education in itself which is not to be confused with actually getting an education.
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.
Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.