Best School Education Quotes

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

That’s just how I see things on a base level: there’s so much going on. Or at least I like to have that feeling. It’s part of being interested in notions of reality apart from storytelling. I don’t know if it has something to do with having an art school education, which makes you aware of the way visuals speak, or makes you trust them more.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

What’s the use of a high school education if you can’t recall it when needed later on?

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

They say that we are better educated than our parents’ generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven’t already done.

It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.