Quotes about Education
From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.
— George Bernard Shaw
The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.
— Ayn Rand
That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.
— Bill Gates
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
— George Eliot
We teach what we need to learn.
— Gloria Steinem
I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.
— Oprah Winfrey
Teach and you'll form a bond you just don't get from traditional marketing tactics.
— Jason Fried
Too much time in academia can actually do you harm. There are a lot of skills that are useful in academia that aren't worth much outside of it.
— Jason Fried
People more often need to be reminded than informed.
— Samuel Johnson
She has been better educated than her sister, and has a more receptive mind. It seems as though someone had sown in a bare field a sprinkling of history, poetry, and pictures, and every seed had shot up in a flowery tangle.
— Edith Wharton
Her mind was as destitute of beauty and mystery as the prairie school-house in which she had been educated; and her ideals seemed to Ralph as pathetic as the ornaments made of corks and cigar-bands with which her infant hands had been taught to adorn it. He was beginning to understand this, and learning to adapt himself to the narrow compass of her experience.
— Edith Wharton
Brains & culture seem non-existent from one end of the social scale to the other, & half the morons yell for filth, & the other half continue to put pants on the piano-legs.
— Edith Wharton