Quotes about Education
The whole of the Trivium was, in fact, intended to teach the pupil the proper use of the tools of learning.
— Dorothy Sayers
What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. It is true that most women care nothing about him, and a great many male undergraduates turn pale and faint at the thought of him-but I, eccentric individual that I am, do want to know about Aristotle, and I submit that there is nothing in my shape or bodily functions which need prevent my knowing about him.
— Dorothy Sayers
In high school, I was very good in math and physics. I wasn't good at much of anything else. Some people are good at a lot of things. I don't know how they choose what to do.
— Donna Strickland
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
— Epictetus
After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.
— TB Joshua
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read.
— Ray Comfort
Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'
— Ray Comfort
I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
— Alice Walker
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
— James Madison