Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
"True expertise is the most potent form of authority."
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
I know the author of my every breath, oh that's Jesus.
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.
She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.
Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.
All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.
The essence of education is the education of the body.
Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.
America is the best half-educated country in the world.
Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.
The schools of the country are its future in miniature.
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.
Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.
There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
The educated can listen impassively to almost anything.
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.
Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.
Tell me I'm a fool. I would not know how to believe it.
You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.
the chief thing I learnt at school was how to tell lies.
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Higher education is a cornerstone of our state's future.
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.
No one has ever died, from an overexposure to education.
The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.