Quotes about Education

People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.

The more limited our language is, the more limited we are; the more limited the literature we give to our children, the more limited their capacity to respond, and therefore, in their turn, to create. The more our vocabulary is controlled, the less we will be able to think for ourselves. We do think in words, and the fewer words we know, the more restricted our thoughts. As our vocabulary expands, so does our power to think.

Why is it that some grown-ups just seem to go on getting dumber and dumber year by year instead of learning anything?

Most of the great universities of the West were founded with the conviction that theology is the queen of the disciplines. (...) Now, in the latter part of the twentieth century, that tradition has almost disappeared.

Everyone who's a success, is a continual learner.

The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure.

Teach yourself. Help yourself. Improve yourself. Enrich yourself.

A lifelong learner is a lifelong winner.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.

For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.