Quotes about Education

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.

There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.

There are small bits of useless knowledge which stick to one's brain like barnacles to

Teaching is not for a teacher simply to persuade students of his or her own perspective. Rather, the goal is to broaden students' minds by helping them empathetically understand a variety of perspectives while training them to think critically for themselves.

See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding.

I didn't design schools for poor kids. I'm designing schools to be world-class.