Quotes about Education

In every other age and class man is held responsible for his reading, and not reading responsible for man. The books a man or woman reads are less the making of character than the expression of it.

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

The aim of education. — Education: to discover but not merely to imitate. Learning techniques without inward experiencing can only lead to superficiality.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.