Quotes by Education The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink. Dorothy Parker inkeducationschool You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book. Dr. Seuss readingeducationbook You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. Dr. Seuss educationbookchildren Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must. Duke of Wellington wiseeducationmotivational Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils. Duke of Wellington educationteacherretirement Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink? Dr. Seuss educationmaththinking My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. Dylan Thomas eyereadingeducation Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners. E. D. Hirsch, Jr. strongeducationinspirational We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse. E. D. Hirsch, Jr. ignoranceeducationthinking I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford. E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax oxfordeducationthinking Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E. M. Forster educationrunninginspirational The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek. E. V. Lucas greeklatineducation It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. E. W. Howe teenageteachingeducation In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Earl Warren educationopportunitychildren I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. Eartha Kitt educationgraduationinspirational About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard. E. W. Howe educationmenson In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place Earl Warren doctrinefieldseducation I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School) Dwight D. Eisenhower teachingeducationtime No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book. E. W. Howe educationteacherbook The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. Ed Koch educationsuccessgraduation«3637383940414243444546»
