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And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical sciences, which proceed very cautiously and admit nothing as established until it has been rigorously demonstrated.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.

And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

And when it comes to developing the high standards we need, it's time to stop working against our teachers and start working with them. Teachers don't go in to education to get rich. They don't go in to education because they don't believe in their children. They want their children to succeed, but we've got to give them the tools. Invest in early childhood education. Invest in our teachers and our children will succeed.

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . hunted out of every corner of the world.

An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer

An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

An education is the investment with the greatest returns.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems.

A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.

Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.

A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.