Quotes about Education
I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.
— John Adams
Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.
— Albert Einstein
If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
— Wendell Berry
Your son and your daughter needs an excellent father more than an excellent college.
— Nick Vujicic
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.
— Marianne Williamson
general or specialized knowledge. An educated man
— Napoleon Hill
The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.
— Napoleon Hill
Successful men, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession. Those who are not successful usually make the mistake of believing that the knowledge acquiring period ends when one finishes school. The truth is that schooling does but little more than to put one in the way of learning how to acquire practical knowledge.
— Napoleon Hill
You impress upon your subconscious mind an idea, plan, concept, or belief. Repetition of positive suggestions to your subconscious mind is the most effective way of educating it to broadcast only positive messages.
— Napoleon Hill
If you have the IMAGINATION, and seek a more profitable outlet for your personal services, this suggestion may be the stimulus for which you have been searching. The IDEA is capable of yielding an income far greater than that of the average doctor, lawyer, or engineer whose education required several years in college.
— Napoleon Hill
books we read, the people with whom we associate, the country and community in which we live, the nature of the work we do, the clothes we wear, the songs we sing, and, most important of all, the religious and intellectual training we receive in our early teenage years.
— Napoleon Hill
A real student will not merely read this book, he will absorb its contents and make them his own.
— Napoleon Hill