Quotes About Education “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” “When you know better you do better.” “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your selfconfidence.” “The past has no power over the present moment.” “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.” “The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.” “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” “If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.” “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” “Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ” “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” “A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.” “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” “Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand." "Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.” “To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.” “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” “In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ” “Marriage can wait, education cannot.” “Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.” “You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!” “Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
