Education Quotes

Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

It is my business to know what other people do not know.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one’s selfish greed.

I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from my mom.

What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.