Quotes about Education

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.

No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome.

Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

Don't let school interfere with your education.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

And now and then his mind reverted to his treatment by those rude Christ's Hospital Boys, and he said, When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teaching out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved and the heart. I will keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby; for learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

I don't see any use in finding out things and clogging up my head with them when I mayn't ever have any occasion to use 'em.