Contact
Privacy
Category: education
Quotes of Category: education
TOP TAGS :stupidityconnection-with-peoplethrillinvolvementpatrioticextremediosmemory-quote

  1. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    One reads for oneself and for strangers.
    book-quoterelationshipsinfluenceeducation

  2. Anonymous _ Qurʾan / القرآن الكريم

    The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.
    book-quoteloveprophetislamic

  3. Charles A. Coulombe _ Vicars of Christ: A History of

    There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience - the final end of human progress."
    book-quotereligioneducationsuperstition

  4. George Bernard Shaw _ Misalliance

    What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
    book-quoteeducation

  5. Simone de Beauvoir _ Le deuxième sexe II

    On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.
    book-quotewomenbirthupbringing

  6. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.
    book-quoteeducation

  7. George Eliot _ Daniel Deronda

    Those who trust us educate us.
    book-quotetrusteducation

  8. John le Carré _ The Secret Pilgrim

    By what route the infant Hansen found his way to the Jesuits, the file did not relate. Perhaps the mother converted. Those were dark years still, and if expediency required it, she may have swallowed her Protestant convictions to buy the boy a decent education. Give the Jesuits his soul, she may have reasoned, and they will give him a brain. Or perhaps she sensed in her son from early on the mercurial nature that later ruled his life, and she determined to subordinate him to a stronger religious discipline than was offered by the easy-going Protestants. If so, she was wise.
    book-quoteeducationjesuits

  9. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ Between the World and Me

    It began to strike me that the point of my education was a kind of discomfort, was the process that would not award me my own especial Dream but would break all the dreams, all the comforting myths of Africa, of America, and everywhere, and would leave me only with humanity in all its terribleness. And there was so much terrible out there, even among us. You must understand this.
    book-quoteracismlearningeducation

  10. Leo Tolstoy _ Anna Karenina

    To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.
    book-quoteeducationschools

  11. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow."It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel.
    book-quoteinequalityeducationsocial-issues

  12. Martin Gardner

    There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for a
    ignoranceeducationraceprejudice
Categories