Education Quotes

"Learning stamps you with its moments. It rushes over you, sweeps you into its purposes because thinking and reading are where I began."

"Knowing the world through reading is only the beginning."

"The educated man is a prisoner of his own knowledge."

"Probably the most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff."

"Understanding comes from having to figure things out yourself."

"You have to be willing to look stupid to actually learn something."

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

"Jem was a boy who was beginning to understand the difference between right and wrong."

"Education teaches you facts; wisdom teaches you meaning."

"The best education comes from experience."

"The purpose of education is to liberate the mind."

"Education is the foundation of a better future."

"A man's true education begins when he has to stop being a student."

"Modern education teaches you how to think like a machine, not like a human."

"Education is the only inheritance that cannot be squandered."

"Education without character is merely training for corruption."

"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot."

"Education teaches you what to think, wisdom teaches you how."

"A writer's life is one of constant education in what it means to be human."

"Education is the means by which we transmit civilization to those who have not yet acquired it."

"Probably the most dangerous thing in the world is to teach people to read and write."

"God damn it, I will make you astonished at the breadth and beauty of your ignorance."

"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they teach it in the school, suppressing the actual content of the philosophy."

"Probably the most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it can make you both more ignorant and less aware of it."

"Education teaches you to think like everyone else."

"Writing books is the closest thing to teaching that I know."

"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot."

"The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values."

"Drug experience is only valuable when it teaches you something"

"Education liberates the mind"