“Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.”
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“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
Source: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr
“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.”
“You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.”
“All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.”
“The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.”
“The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.”
Source: The Act of Creation
“Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.”
Source: Krishnamurti on Education
“A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.”
“Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.”
Source: Last Chance To See
Source: The Four-Gated City
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.”
“Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”
“Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.”
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations
Source: Locked rooms and open doors
“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.”
Source: The Works of John Locke: Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentlemen. Elements of natural philosophy. New method of a common-place-book
“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
“To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Life
“You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness