Quotes about Education

Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?'

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

I have found that the more I teach those who want to learn, the more I learn.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can.

What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.

I want you to have all the academic freedom you want as long as you wind up saying the bible account (of creation) is true and all others are not.

I'm half-and-half on school. I had fun in grade school, but when I went to college, it was the worst place I've ever been in my entire life.

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

I know how tough engineering school can really be, but it's worth it.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.