Quotes about Education

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schoolingTo get adapted to my kind of fooling.

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

5 minutes of learning today is better than no minutes of learning today.

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

But I wanted someone who was more than just intelligent and educated. I was searching for an expert who wouldn't gloss over nuances or blithely dismiss challenges to the records of Christianity

Godly teachers encourage questions; those who demand unthinking agreement have something to hide.

Puritan leaders, at least, valued an educated mind over material riches. Cotton Mather admonished his congregation with the comment, "If your main concern be to get the riches of this world for your children, and leave a belly full of this world unto them, it looks very suspiciously as if you were yourselves the people of this world, whose portion is only in this life."30

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. —MARGARET MEAD

You were not created to be subservient; you are a joint heir. Women are God-answers. The addition of women's voices increases the educational opportunity for all children, stimulates the economy, and apparently decreases the risk of terrorism

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.