Education Quotes
“We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.”
“The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.”
-- Jacques Barzun
“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.”
-- David Suzuki
“For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.”
-- Havelock Ellis
“'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a master's degree in comedy.”
-- Matt LeBlanc
“There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.”
-- Buzz Aldrin
“If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.”
-- Ray Bradbury