Quotes about Education

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Our schools must be places where all are respected and the values of tolerance and peacemaking are taught and nurtured.

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.

No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome.

Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.