Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. —William Butler Yeats More about this quote Tags: education passion fire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. —W. H. Auden More about this quote Tags: education talk professors Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nature was my kindergarten. —William Christopher Handy More about this quote Tags: education childhood nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. —Georgia O'Keeffe More about this quote Tags: ignorance education learning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. —Cicero More about this quote Tags: virtue education glory ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves. —Adam Cooper and Bill Collage More about this quote Tags: education Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. —Ann Radcliffe More about this quote Tags: education Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Education is the best provision for old age. —Aristotle More about this quote Tags: education Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people. —Claiborne Pell More about this quote Tags: education Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. —Clive James More about this quote Tags: education Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes. —Denis Diderot More about this quote Tags: education Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. —Diogenes Laertius More about this quote Tags: education Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity. —Ellen DeGeneres More about this quote Tags: education Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Only the educated are free. —Epictetus More about this quote Tags: education Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. —G. M. Trevelyan More about this quote Tags: education Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email