education Quotes

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.