Quotes about Education

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

The same instincts that make us good students can make us lousy entrepreneurs.

I always felt like my value was much more in my intellect than it was in my appearance, and so that's what I spent time cultivating. And some of that I get from my mother, some of that comes from the schools that I went to, and some of that comes from probably insecurity.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.

Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only on the best. As John Wesley's mother counseled him: 'Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, … increases the authority of the body over the mind.

America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.

Don't argue with [a professor], but test everything he says in the light of God's Word.

Nothing seems to satisfy. Not politics, not education, not material goods. Some who refuse to turn their hearts toward God have created the New Age movement, with all of its aberrations. This is actually not new but only the latest attempt by man to place something other than Christ inside himself in a futile attempt to satisfy spiritual longings.

One of my great regrets is that I have not studied enough. I wish I had studied more and preached less.

The more man learns, the less he knows.