Quotations about Education
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
–– Marcel Achard
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
–– Anonymous
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
–– Francis Bacon
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
–– Jacques Barzun
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
–– Hector Louis Berlioz
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
–– Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
–– J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
–– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
–– Albert Camus
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
–– Thomas Carruthers
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
–– Chinese Proverb
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
–– Marcel Achard
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
–– Anonymous
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
–– Francis Bacon
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
–– Jacques Barzun
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
–– Hector Louis Berlioz
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
–– Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
–– J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
–– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
–– Albert Camus
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
–– Thomas Carruthers
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
–– Chinese Proverb
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