Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. – William Haley
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. – Doug Larson
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist," 1890
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. – Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. – Peter Drucker
Education is the movement from darkness to light. – Allan Bloom
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. – John W. Gardner
Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. – William Butler Yeats
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. – Al McGuire
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. – Bishop Mandell Creighton
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. – Clay P. Bedford
When the student is ready, the master appears. – Buddhist Proverb
You learn something every day if you pay attention. – Ray LeBlond
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. – Mohammed
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. – Chinese Proverb
All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. – Winston Churchill
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. – Mortimer Adler
I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets. – Bernard Keble Sandwell
Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later. – Dana Stewart Scott
