Education Quotes

"First he wrought, and afterward he taught" "The human mind is something everyone should be able to understand." "Science enhances the moral environment." "The book you don't read won't help" "The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned " "If you keep learning all the time, you have a huge advantage" "The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can" "In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating." "There are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome the problems we face, just the familiar ones: honest search for understanding, education, organization, action that raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators, solidarity with the oppressed and their struggles everywhere." "Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow" "I say there is no darkness but ignorance." "Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines" "The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance" "We are all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid" "Libraries raised me. I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years." "The so-called learning society can be a new weapon of cultural imperialism; but in its liberatory form, education is the indispensable basis for human development." "When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable" "Ignorance is no crime and that young people should not be blamed for their ignorance, but somehow we should get around to doing something about it" "I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing." "You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child."