Quotes by Education One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education. Edward Gibbon clevereducationideas In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land." Edward Teller educationmenscience Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire. Edwin Boring giving-upfeareducation Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton university-educationuniversityeducation The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton leadershipeducationinspirational I say that our system of tests and grades, as it now exists, is one source of the low yield of great men from our universities. The marking system is a traumatic experience from which most students emerge with a deep determination never to get into a situation where they can be marked again. They just won't ever again take a chance. Edwin Land determinationeducationmen A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence. Edwin Percy Whipple lighteducationteacher No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth. Edwin Percy Whipple spiritualnameseducation Into what boundless life, does education admit us. Every truth gained through it expands a moment of time into illimitable being--positively enlarges our existence, and endows us with qualities which time cannot weaken or destroy. Edwin Hubbel Chapin qualitydoeeducation Education is the cornerstone of liberty. Eleanor Roosevelt cornerstoneslibertyeducation The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. Elbert Hubbard teachingeducationteacher All of life is a constant education. Eleanor Roosevelt learningeducationinspiring Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century. Elie Wiesel keyshatrededucation Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. Eleanor Roosevelt faitheducationhappiness The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. Elbert Hubbard educationteacherinspirational There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. Elie Wiesel divine-beautyeducationmean A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life. Elbert Hubbard educationteacherretirement When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross paineducationdeath A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it. Elbert Hubbard degreescollegeeducation One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education. Eleanor Roosevelt educationpeopleway«3940414243444546474849»
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