Quotes tagged with 'education'
Some drink deeply from the well of knowledge, others just rinse and spit.
—Robert Anthony
Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news.
—Zbigniew BrzeziĆski
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
—William Haley
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
—Thomas Jefferson
One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-anything except reason.
—Thomas Sowell
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
—Alexandra K. Trenfor
I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.
—Mark Twain
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
—William Butler Yeats
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