Quotes about Education

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself indeed, it seems to execute itself.

Take away the paradox from a thinker and you have a professor.

It is the process of mis-education that inhibits the full potential of a nation.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field but I am sincere, and my sincerity is my credentials

You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't make that mistake again.

Unlike some other religions, we have never felt it served a higher purpose to lie to children about geology.

I remember a television program I once saw; a rerun, made years before. I must have been seven or eight, too young to understand it. It was the sort of thing my mother liked to watch: historical, educational. She tried to explain it to me afterwards, to tell me that the things in it had really happened, but to me it was only a story. I thought someone had made it up. I suppose all children think that, about any history before their own. If it's only a story, it becomes less frightening.

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't do that again.