Quotes about Education
But his marital education had since made strides, and he now knew that a disregard for money may imply not the willingness to get on without it but merely a blind confidence that it will somehow be provided.
— Edith Wharton
For four or five generations it had been the rule of both houses that a young fellow should go to Columbia or Harvard, read law, and then lapse into more or less cultivated inaction.
— Edith Wharton
Real civilisation means an education that extends to the whole of life, in contradistinction to that of school or college: it means an education that forms speech, forms manners, forms taste, forms ideals, and above all forms judgment.
— Edith Wharton
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
— Albert Camus
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.
— Albert Einstein
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
— Albert Einstein
Never memorize something that you can look up.
— Albert Einstein
There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.
— Albert Schweitzer
I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't want to be constricted to an idea of what acting is by anyone else. I want to take my own education.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.
— Gordon Hinckley
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
— Will Rogers
I think our model is sustainable. If all schools operated like Liberty and charged what we charge, there wouldn't be a student loan problem in America.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.