Quotes about Education

Most people stop learning out of fear. They are afraid they cannot learn.

Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.

Segregation shaped me education liberated me.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated I would be a damn fool.

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

All true histories contain instruction.

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

Any elected official who asks to visit my schools is welcome to do so; there is no political litmus test.