Quotes about Education
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
by Al McGuire (Coach, American , born in 1931) keywords: bartender, college, degree, educated, everyone, get, go, months, really, should, six, spend, then, think , would I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
by Michel de Montaigne (Philosopher, French , born in 1970) keywords: because, been, company, educated, incorrectly, peasants, prefer, reason , sufficiently Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
by Ezra Pound (Poet, American , born in 1885) keywords: education, insist, knowing, limited, men, mere, must, real, rest , ultimately The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
by Ernest Renan (Philosopher, French , born in 1823) keywords: archimedes, familiar, his, life, now, sacrificed, schoolboy, simplest, truths, which , would The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
by Will Rogers (Actor, American , born in 1879) keywords: actual, education, how, know, learn, less, little, living, make, more, owes, read, somebody, spoils, thing, think , work To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
by Muriel Spark (Novelist, English , born in 1918) keywords: already, call, education, intrusion, leading, miss, out, pupil, putting, something , soul Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
by G. M. Trevelyan (Historian, English , born in 1876) keywords: able, distinguish, education, population, produced, read, reading, unable, vast , worth In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
by Mark Twain (Author, American , born in 1970) keywords: boards, first, god, idiots, made, place, practice, school , then Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
by Oscar Wilde (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: admirable, education, knowing, nothing, remember, taught, thing, time, well , worth
