"education"タグの名言

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had been to night school.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think.

If you think education is expensive - try ignorance.

It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Some men are graduated from college cum laude, some are graduated summa cum laude, and some are graduated mirabile dictu.

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

Soon learnt, soon forgotten.

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.