Quotes about Education

Wilberforce's time at Cambridge over two hundred years ago sounds extraordinarily like the experience of many college students today.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door.

Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.

The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.

There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.