Education Quotes
# “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” — Edith Ann, [Lily Tomlin]
# “You teach best what you most need to learn.” — Richard David Bach
# A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. – Anonymous
# A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep. – Anonymous
# A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. – John Ciardi
# A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don’t know and I don’t care. – Richard Pratt, Pacific Computer Weekly, 20 July 1990
# “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.” — (Louis) Hector Berlioz
# Academy: A modern school where football is taught. – Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) – The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911
# An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. – Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
# Education … has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. – G. M. Trevelyan
# Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. – Laurence J. Peter
# An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. – Nicholas Murray Butler
# Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. – Will Durant
# Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. – Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
# Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. – Heinrich Heine
# Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you’re too damned old to do anything about it. – Jimmy Connors
# Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. – Aldous Huxley
# “Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” – John Cotton Dana
# “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry Brooks Adams
# “What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.” –George Bernard Shaw
# “Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don’t know.” – R. Verdi
# “Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.”
— Perelman
# “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein
# “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain
# “Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.” – William Allin
# “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.” – Vernon Law
# “I may have said the same thing before… But my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.” – Oscar Wilde
# “Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.” – Publilius Syrus
