Education Quotes

"He who has not early sown in his mind the seeds of truth will hear many things that will seem true but are false and will thereby incur grave damage." "A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good" "If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn" "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them" "Wonder is the desire for knowledge" "Experience teaches only the teachable." "Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity" "It is necessary to unlearn what we have learned because there is no substitute for experience" "We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void." "The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture" "Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue" "There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action " "The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant" "A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people" "The ultimate test of your knowledge is your capacity to convey it to another" "A scholar is just a library's way of making another library." "We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!" "With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands." "The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free." "And gladly would he learn and gladly teach"