Education
Michel de Montaigne on Education
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton on Education
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
R. Buckminster Fuller on Science
“Everything you’ve learned in school as ‘obvious’ becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.”
Victor Hugo on Education
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
Alec Bourne on Education
“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”
Isaac Newton on Science
“I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.”
Isaac Asimov on Knowledge
“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
Will Durant on Education
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.“
John Wilmot on Children
“Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.”
Thomas Merton on Education
“The least of learning is done in the classrooms.”
George Bernard Shaw on Education
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
Albert Einstein on Education
“I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
Enrico Fermi on Knowledge
“It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.”
Thomas Carlyle on Education
“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower on Intellectuals
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
R. D. Hitchcock on Character and Education
“The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.”
Winston Churchill on Learning
“Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
Will Rogers on Ignorance
“You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
H. G. Wells on History and Education
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
Helen Keller on Knowledge
“Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge – broad, deep knowledge – is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man’s progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.”
Anatole France on Education
“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.“
Jerry Seinfeld on Society
“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.”
Sharon Salzberg on Life and Education
“We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.”
Marquis de Vauvenargues on Education
“The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.”
Aristotle on Education
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”