| A 1990 Gallup survey for the National Endowment of the Humanities, given to a representative sample of 700 college seniors, found that 25 percent did not know that Columbus landed in the Western Hemisphere before the year 1500, 42 percent could not place the Civil War in the correct half-century, and 31 percent thought Reconstruction came after World War II. In 1993, a Department of Education survey found that, among college graduates, 50 percent of whites and more than 80 percent of blacks couldn't state in writing the argument made in a newspaper column or use a bus schedule to get on the right bus, 56 percent could not calculate the right tip, 57 percent could not figure out how much change they should get back after putting down $3 to pay for a 60-cent bowl of soup and a $1.95 sandwich, and over 90 percent could not use a calculator to find the cost of carpeting a room. But not to worry. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni's 1999 survey of seniors at the nation's top 55 liberal arts colleges and universities found that 98 percent could identify rap artist Snoop Doggy Dogg and Beavis and Butt-Head, but only 34 percent knew George Washington was the general at the battle of Yorktown. Americans as donors and taxpayers have been exceedingly generous to our universities. Given our universities' gross betrayal of trust, Americans should rethink their generosity as well as rethink who serves on boards of trustees that, in dereliction of duty, permit universities to become hotbeds of political activism and academic fraud. There are a few universities where there's still integrity and academic honesty, and they don't cost an arm and a leg. Among them are: Grove City College, Pa., Hillsdale College, Mich., Franciscan University, Steubenville, Iowa, and others listed at the Web page of Young America's Foundation. Walter Williams
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. Jerry Seinfeld
Academic Freedom: Freedom of students or teachers to hold or express views without fear of arbitrary interference, except when such ideas are deemed racist, bigoted, homophobic, insensitive, chauvinistic, jingoistic, imperialistic, religious, conservative, or politically incorrect. Rush Limbaugh
Academic freedom is not only meant to protect professors; it is also supposed to ensure students' right to learn without being molested. When instructors use their classrooms to indoctrinate and propagandize, they cheat those students and betray the academic mission they are entrusted with. That should be intolerable to honest men and women of every stripe -- liberals and conservatives alike. Jeff Jacoby
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. James Baldwin (1924-1987) American novelist
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. George Santayana
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. George Bernard Shaw
A free people must be a thinking people. Everett Dean Martin
A good library is a place, a palace, where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. Samuel Niger, 1883-1956
A group of researchers published a study of Japanese mothers and mothers in Minneapolis. The mothers were asked the most important things that a child needs to succeed academically. The answers tell a lot about the difference in our two cultures today. The mothers in Minneapolis chose 'ability.' The mothers in Japan said 'effort.' Richard H. Finan
A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans...in books may be found the recipes for daily living -- the prescriptions for the mind and the heart. Georges Duhamel (1884-1966)
A little learning is a dangerous thing. Alexander Pope
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold. George Bernard Shaw
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind are convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. Aristotle
A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know. Laurence Peter
A man may possess a profound knowledge of history and mathematics; he may be an authority in psychology, biology, or astronomy; he may know all the discovered truths pertaining to geology and natural science; but if he has not with this knowledge that nobility of soul which prompts him to deal justly with his fellow men, to practice virtue and holiness in personal life, he is not a truly educated man. David O. McKay, Gospel Ideals, p 440-441
A man who empties his purse into his head cannot be robbed. Ben Franklin
A man who is so dull that he can learn only by personal experience is too dull to learn anything important by experience. Don Marquis
A man who works with his hands is a laborer, A man who works with his hands and brain is a craftsman, A man who works with his hands, and his brain, and his heart is an artist. Author Unknown
Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on dry land. Mark Lee (The Next Karate Kid)
America has an educational system worthy of David Duke....Most black leaders have simply sold out the future of black kids to teachers unions. Rich Lowry
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes
A most interesting fact of history is that Americans were probably the most literate people in the world before the advent of government schools and compulsory school attendance. Since the U.S. was already highly literate when parents were allowed complete freedom in educating their children, the reason behind compulsory attendance obviously had nothing to do with academics. Neither was the problem one of economics, as there was not a shortage of charity schools. If the purpose was not one of academics or to help poor children receive an education, what was the intent behind the push for government schools and more importantly, compulsory attendance laws? This is an urgent question that begs an honest answer because with ever increasing government controls and compulsory attendance, American literacy rates have steadily plummeted. With the billions of dollars spent on education can this really be an accident? Debbie O'Hara
A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins. Benjamin Franklin
An empty sack cannot stand upright. Benjamin Franklin
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. H. L. Mencken
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. John W. Gardner
An informed patriotism is what we want. And are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world? Ronald Reagan, US President
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin
An open mind collects more riches than an open purse. Author Unknown
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. Maya Angelou
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford
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Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. Bible, Proverbs 23:12
A primary object...should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing...than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country? George Washington
At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. And that worries the hell out of me. Barnaby C. Keeny, President, Brown University
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry B. Adams
A truly educated man has learned to open his mind to new ideas. Ironically, he must also learn to become more skeptical of new ideas. He accepts all truth, but only after he is satisfied that it is, indeed, truth. Blaine Nay (www.nay.org/quotes.htm)
At the rate our government schools are going, they'll be holding teen wedding ceremonies during recess if we're not careful. The government sure knows how to pile on the programs. Do you think it ever occurred to education policymakers that the reason we now have teen day care is because we started teaching sex education in the first place? I don't think this thought occurred to [former] First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, author of It Takes A Village. Sorry Hillary -- school is no substitute for a child's family. According to African tradition, the village you mention in your book refers to private citizens tending to the needs of neighbors. Sort of like being our brother's keeper. Like all good government socialists, the [former] First Lady has stretched the concept 'It takes a village to raise a child' to mean that government can usurp authority over parents. Star Parker
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels. Bible, Proverbs 1:5
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. James Thurber
Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side. Marilyn vos Savant
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. Epictetus
Because of modern technology, the contents of huge libraries and other data resources are at the fingertips of many of us. Some choose to spend countless hours in unfocused surfing the Internet, watching trivial television, or scanning other avalanches of information. But to what purpose? Those who engage in such activities are hurrying to and fro, hauling more and more but failing to grasp the essential truth that we cannot make a profit from our efforts until we understand the true value of what is already within our grasp. Dallin H. Oaks (Ensign, May 2001, p 82)
Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter. Hugh Nibley
Be open-minded, but not so open-minded that your brains fall out. Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw
But to be learned is good if they hearken unto the counsels of God. Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 9:29
By law, the public schools of this nation must be nondenominational. They can have no part in securing acceptance of any one of the numerous systems of belief regarding a supernatural power and the relation of mankind thereto. That restriction applies to the atheist as well as to the believer in God. The scientist who tells young people that religious faith is to be condemned because it is "unscientific" is violating the Constitution of the state and of the nation as much as he who would take advantage of his position to advocate the superiority of any religion. David O. McKay (Pathways to Happiness, p 66-67)
Chance favors the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur
Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish the desired end. Character is not the result of chance work but of continuous right thinking and right acting. David O. McKay, Gospel Ideals, p 440-441
Children learn in school what they need to know to 'function' in a socialist society, but are not literate enough to gain the knowledge they would need to escape it. Socialism must be really great if they need to dumb us down in order to get us to quietly accept it. The socialist elites need us stupid so that we have no alternative to their socialist propaganda. Socialism has to be sold to us through emotion. It cannot withstand intellectual scrutiny. Debbie O'Hara
Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling. Jack Handey
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. John Adams (Defense of the Constitutions, 1787)
Christ, seven years of college, down the drain. John Belushi
College isn't the place to go for ideas. Helen Keller
College tuition is one of the greatest rip-offs in America today. Jason Lewis, 10 Apr 2008
Commit yourself to read good books-not just when you are attending school, but throughout your life. Some people learn to read but don't read. At some point in our lives, we learned to read. But are we reading? Are we growing in wisdom? Joe J. Christensen (New Era, Jan 1998)
Common Sense is genius dressed up in its working clothes. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance. Albert Einstein
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. William Arthur Ward
Declaration of Independence: An historical document that should not be read or displayed in public schools because of its overt religious nature. Rush Limbaugh
Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily. Author Unknown
Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold. Bob Marley
Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires? Alan Keyes
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke (1632-1704) English philosopher
Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations. Maya Angelou
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. Laurence J. Peter
Education is a vaccine for violence. Edward James Olmos
Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility that society owes to itself. Robin Cook
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity. Lyndon B. Johnson
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost
Education is the best provision for old age. Aristotle
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a cup. Socrates
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
Education is the vaccine for violence. Edward James Olmos
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. B.F. Skinner, 1904-1990
Education never helped morals. The smarter the guy, the bigger the rascal. Will Rogers
Education should do two things: open our minds to new ideas and, conversely, give us the strength and tools to challenge new ideas. Blaine Nay
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm S. Forbes
Education which does not produce a free mind is not education. John Gunther
Education will not [take the place of persistence]; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day. Thomas Jefferson
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. Maria Montessori (1870-1952) Italian educator and physician
Even under Republican leadership, primary and secondary education in America has remained essentially a socialist enterprise: Government owns the major means of production. As in all socialist regimes, this one redistributes wealth in perverse ways....Parents who struggle to scrape together the tuition to send their children to religious schools are now doubly taxed locally and federally -- to support government-owned schools they do not like and do not use. When 'moderate' Bob Dole was the Republican presidential candidate in 1996, he ran on a platform calling for abolition of the federal Department of Education because the Constitution does not grant the federal government a role in primary and secondary education....If every American family cannot instantly be given sole ownership of their children's schooling, at least they shouldn't have to pay twice for the schools the government insists on owning. Terence Jeffrey
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. Will Rogers
Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country. Noah Webster
Every time science opens another door, God is found standing behind it. William Wallace Rose
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. Benjamin Franklin
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. Charles Darwin
Few subjects are as important to the future of America as a thorough understanding and appreciation of the U.S. Constitution by every school student. It is not enough to simply praise the document as one of the foundations of our nation. It is essential that students learn why and how the Constitution governs the structure and function of government. It is crucial that students learn that government is empowered by the consent of the governed, not the other way around. They must learn that this power is transmitted to the government through the election process and that they, individually, bear the responsibility to choose candidates who reflect their views. They must learn that freedom in America is the reason why the nation has prospered. Freedom is neither granted nor guaranteed by the government. Government can only limit freedom. Freedom is granted by the Creator and guaranteed by responsible individuals who hold their government accountable. A thorough knowledge and appreciation of the U.S. Constitution is the first step toward becoming a responsible citizen. The next step is to act continually on that knowledge, to keep government within the limits of power to which the people consent. Henry Lamb
[F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy....the only ground of hope must be on the morals of the people. I believe that religion is the only solid base of morals and that morals are the only possible support of free governments. [T]herefore education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man towards God. Gouverneur Morris
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. Benjamin Franklin
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. Henry L. Doherty
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. Lenin
Give me the children until they are seven, and anyone may have them afterwards. Saint Francis Xavier
Give your brain as much attention as you do your hair, and you'll be a thousand times better off. Malcolm X
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. Gail Godwin
Help your children understand that excellence in education cannot be achieved without intellectual and moral integrity coupled by hard work and commitment. National Commission on Excellence in Education
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. George Bernard Shaw
History allows us to see the obvious -- but unfortunately, not until it is too late. Prince Raphael Corrino
History by apprising [citizens] of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views. Thomas Jefferson (Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, 1781)
Home school students are in a class by themselves. Bumper Sticker
How difficult it is to save the bark [ship] of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. Petrarch (1304-1374) Italian poet and humanist
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) French novelist and dramatist
Howling is not a substitute for thinking. Adlai E. Stevenson
How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars. Frosty Wooldridge
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experiences of others, are also remarkable for their disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. Eartha Kitt
I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth. Martin Luther
I began my education at a very early age - in fact, right after I left college. Winston Churchill
I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford. Dave Barry
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. Socrates
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo Galilei, astronomer and mathematician
I don't like the teacher, the subject is too deep; I oughta quit this class, but then, I need the sleep. Author Unknown
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be. Thomas Jefferson
If an unfriendly power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament. Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling, and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. A Nation at Risk, a report issued by Reagan administration
If a person gains more knowledge and intelligence in this life through his diligence and obedience than another, he will have so much the advantage in the world to come. Doctrine and Covenants 130:19
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. Thomas Jefferson, 1816
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? Maria Montessori (1870-1952) Italian educator and physician
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. Maria Montessori (1870-1952) Italian educator and physician
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy? Thomas Jefferson
If religious ideas are not true, of what good is religion? If science ignores truths simply because they wear religious labels, of what good is science? Selwyn Duke
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. Albert Einstein
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? Lily Tomlin
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? Albert Einstein
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. Albert Einstein
If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. Raymond Inmon
If you believe everything you read, you better not read. Japanese proverb
If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it. Jerome Singer
If you can read this, thank a teacher. And since it's in English, thank a Marine. Bumper sticker
If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you're reading this in English, thank a veteran. Alan Korwin
If you don't like living in a divided country, all you have to do is get yourself appointed to the university faculty somewhere and you will be able to experience the joys of living in a one-party state. James Taranto
If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family. Ruby Manikan
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Margaret Fuller
If you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane. Richard Dawkins, biologist (tolerance of opposing viewpoints in science is apparently intolerable, even though the theory of evolution itself has not been proven and must be taken on faith)
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance! Andy McIntyre
Ignorance is curable, but stupid is forever! Granddad
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Charles Darwin
I have a BS in Mechanical Engineering, but although I never was employed as a ME, I continue to get benefits from the knowledge. I claim not a day passes that we don't somehow use a lot of that "wasted" effort expended in college and other study. There many more things we run into every day that we don't wonder about because we already know that stuff, maybe even on a subconscious level. Without an education we would be like a caveman awakened into the 21st century - soon everything natural would assume superstitious aura and we would end up subject to those who actually knew how things work. TC Wilson, Alaska
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. Lily Tomlin
I love the Stars and Stripes, and the American Way of Life. I have faith in the Constitution of the United States. I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our Nation be preserved and perpetuated. David O. McKay
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein
In education for citizenship, therefore, why should we not see to it that every child in America is taught the superiority of our Constitution and the sacredness of the freedom of the individual? Such definite instruction is not in violation of either the Federal or the State Constitution....Education for citizenship demands more emphasis upon moral and spiritual values. Our government was founded on faith in a Supreme Being as evidenced by the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, by George Washington, and Benjamin Franklin in the Constitutional Convention, and by a hundred other incidents prior to, during, and following the birth of this Republic. Said the Father of our Country: "We have raised a standard to which the good and wise can repair; the event is in the hands of God." David O. McKay, 8 Mar 1954
Information is not knowledge. Albert Einstein
In order to avoid poverty, just do three things: finish high school, marry before having a child, and don't have a child until you're at least twenty years old. Only 8 percent of people who do all three of those things wind up poor, but a staggering 79 percent of those who fail to do them wind up in poverty. Bernard Goldberg (Arrogance, p 12)
In our Church we teach that "the glory of God is intelligence." We believe also that the glory of man is likewise intelligence. With this in mind, we are strong advocates of education. Mark E. Petersen, Ensign, Nov 1975, page 65)
[In our universities] certain things cannot be said, certain ideas cannot be expressed, certain policies cannot be proposed, certain behavior cannot be permitted without making tolerance an instrument for the continuation of servitude. Herbert Marcuse, Marxist professor in an essay called "Repressive Tolerance"
Institutions of higher education are conducted for the common good and not to further the interest of either the individual teacher or the institution as a whole. The common good depends upon the free search for truth and its free exposition. Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure, American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson
Intelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free-floating brainpower. Thomas A. Stewart
Intelligent Design is ultimately a science stopper. Eugenie Scott, Anthropologist (tolerance of opposing viewpoints in science is apparently intolerable, even though the theory of evolution itself has not been proven and must be taken on faith)
In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur, 1822-1895
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. Mark Twain
In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty. Russell M. Nelson (Ensign, Nov 1992, p 6)
In too many cases, Christian children in public school classrooms are being forced to act like atheists. After all, that is effectively what is happening when they are told not to talk about Jesus, not to sing about Jesus, and not to write about Jesus. Charles Colson, 8 Jan 2007
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? Voltaire (1694-1778) French Philosopher and Author
I tell you and you forget. I show you and you remember. I involve you and you understand. Eric Butterworth
I think religion is a deadly threat to the survival of the species and to the continued evolution of the brain. Christopher Hitchens (apparently this is particularly true with the religion known as Atheism)
It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the sciences but may implant in the minds of the American youth the principles of virtue and of liberty and inspire them with just and liberal ideas of government and with an inviolable attachment to their own country. Noah Webster (On Education of Youth in America, 1790)
It is better to be un-informed than ill-informed. Keith Duckworth
It is better to know nothing than to know what aint so. Josh Billings
It is better to learn late than never. Publilius Syrus
It is impossible for a man to be save in ignorance. Doctrine and Covenants 131:6
It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn. Hannah More
It is so important that you young men and you young women get all of the education that you can. The Lord has said very plainly that His people are to gain knowledge of countries and kingdoms and of things of the world through the process of education, even by study and by faith. Education is the key which will unlock the door of opportunity for you. It is worth sacrificing for. It is worth working at, and if you educate your mind and your hands, you will be able to make a great contribution to the society of which you are a part, and you will be able to reflect honorably on the Church of which you are a member. My dear young brothers and sisters, take advantage of every educational opportunity that you can possibly afford, and you fathers and mothers, encourage your sons and daughters to gain an education which will bless their lives. Gordon B. Hinckley, Ensign, June 1999, p 4)
It is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country. Thomas Jefferson
It is the duty of parents to maintain their children decently, and according to their circumstances; to protect them according to the dictates of prudence; and to educate them according to the suggestions of a judicious and zealous regard for their usefulness, their respectability and happiness. James Wilson
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
It is time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy. It's a bureaucratic system where everybody's role is spelled out in advance, and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's not a surprise when a school system doesn't improve. It more resembles a Communist economy than our own market economy. Albert Shanker
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. Andrew Jackson
It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest. Chuck Berry, musician
It's better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. Author Unknown
It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so. Will Rogers
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. Thomas Sowell
It would be a mistake to assume that the present-day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid change. But much of this change is no more than an attempt to refine the existent machinery, making it ever more efficient in pursuit of obsolete goals. Alvin Toffler
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. Albert Einstein
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. Gerry Spence, Author
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. Voltaire (1694-1778) French Philosopher and Author
Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain. Dr. Thomas Sowell
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. Leonardo da Vinci
Knowing is not enough. We have heard moving stories of wandering Arabs who have died of thirst in the night only a few feet from water. It makes no difference how far one has come or how near one may be to the water. He who has not gone all the way cannot drink. Hugh Nibley (Of All Things, page 236)
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Understanding is not enough; we must do. Knowing and understanding in action make for honor. And honor is the heart of wisdom. Johann von Goethe
Knowledge can be power and salvation if we have the power to use it. Arnold J. Toynbee
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery. Chet Raymo
Knowledge is good even if what is known is painful. Bertrand Russell
Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness. George Washington (First Annual Message, 8 January 1790)
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. Heber J. Grant (Improvement Era, 36:224)
Knowledge is power. Francis Bacon
Knowledge is power, and enthusiasm pulls the switch. Steve Droke
Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice. Stuart Wilde
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is the life of the mind. Abu Bakr
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. James Madison
Law and liberty cannot rationally become the objects of our love, unless they first become the objects of our knowledge. James Wilson (Of the Study of the Law in the United States, Circa 1790)
Laws for the liberal [extensive] education of the youth, especially of the lower class of the people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant. John Adams (Thoughts on Government, 1776)
Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself. John Luther
Learning and liberty march hand in hand or they do not march at all. Sir Hartley Shawcross
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill. Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams, 1744-1818
Learn[ing] what is true, in order to do what is right, is the summing up of the whole duty of man. Thomas Henry Huxley
Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back. Zora Neale Hurston
Let the children who are sent to those schools be taught to read and write and above all, let both sexes be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education. Benjamin Rush
Let us dare to read, think, speak and write. John Adams, 1765
Let us instill into the hearts of our children the love of freedom. Teach them that to be free is as precious as life itself. Fight every influence -- Socialist, communist, whatever it may be -- that would deprive an American citizen of the liberty vouchsafed by the Constitution. Liberty is truth. In truth we find liberty. You teachers, feel it in your hearts; instill it into the hearts of these precious children. May the Church of Jesus Christ ever stand true to the ideals of freedom. David O. McKay
Let your children be exposed to great minds, great ideas, everlasting truth, and those things which will build and motivate for good. Gordon B. Hinckley (Ensign, Jun 1985)
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. John Adams
Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain. John F. Kennedy
Life is short and therefore precious, and we should all keep the company of the best people we can find, both in life and in books. Charley Reese
Live as if you were going to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were going to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi
Lots of scientists question evolution, but they would lose their jobs if they spoke out. Dr. Caroline Crocker, Biologist, who lost her position at George Mason University for teachings critical of aspects of Neo-Darwinian evolution theory
Man's mind stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. Sir Winston Churchill
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russell
Minds are like parachutes. They only work when they're open. Sir James DeWar, 1842-1923
My grandmother wanted me to have an education so she kept me out of school. Margaret Mead
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. Maya Angelou
Nations die by suicide. The sign of it is the decay of thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never assume the obvious is true. William Safire
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. Sandra Carey
No country is truly free, where the children are compelled to go to school. Ashleigh Brilliant
No longer content to ruin their own children, liberals insist on being subsidized by the taxpayer to ruin everyone else's children, too. Ann Coulter, 2006
No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of earth to the things of heaven. Hugh Nibley (Of All Things, p 219)
None is poor but the person who lacks knowledge. Abaye Talmud
No one is free whose mind is not like a door with a double-acting hinge swinging outward to release their own ideas and inward to receive the worthy thoughts of others. Validivar
No one is more victimized by the failures of America's government-run school system than the children of the urban poor, and those children are usually black. Stuck disproportionately in schools that don't work, blocked from the escape hatch of private or parochial school, black children routinely perform far below average in every subject. Sixty-three percent of black 4th-graders, for example, cannot read. The average black high school senior is about as well educated as the average white middle school student. There are many ways to ruin someone's life, but few are as effective as ignorance. And ignorance, by and large, is what public schooling guarantees for children from America's poorest and blackest neighborhoods. Deroy Murdock
No one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in its effect towards supporting free and good government. Thomas Jefferson (letter to Trustees for the Lottery of East Tennessee College, 6 May 1810)
No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders. Samuel Adams (letter to James Warren, 4 Nov 1775)
Nothing ages people like not thinking. Christopher Morley
Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people.' Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth. Paul Johnson
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Marie Curie
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action. Goethe
Not to know what happened before we were born is to remain perpetually a child. For what is the worth of a human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history? Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
Obtain a knowledge of history, and of countries, and of kingdoms, of laws of God and man. Doctrine and Covenants 93:53
One cannot learn anything by running away from the thing to be learned. Blaine Nay
One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts. Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
Only the educated are free. Epictetus
Our freedom is not being destroyed by terrorists, but by ignorance, apathy and complacency. Our government schools are to blame.... Our dumbing down is not accidental but a very well organized plan. Kelly McGinley
Our leaders must remember that education doesn't begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn't even begin with State or local officials. Education begins in the home, where it's a parental right and responsibility. Both our public and our private schools exist to aid our families in the instruction of our children, and it's time some people back in Washington stopped acting as if family wishes were only getting in the way. Ronald Reagan, US President (Remarks to the National Catholic Education Association in Chicago, Illinois 15 Apr 1982)
Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money. Phyllis Schlafly
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx
Over the past three decades, our Founding Fathers have fallen on rough times. Disparaged by liberals and slandered by post-modernists and cultural Marxists, their portraits have been removed from public buildings and their presence stricken from textbooks. It is possible today for American students to pass through elementary school and high school, and obtain a university degree, without gaining any appreciation for the men who founded their country. The horrendous events of Sept. 11 taught Americans that denunciations of their heritage have consequences that go beyond the babbling of crackpot academics and minority 'leaders.' Paul C. Roberts
PC [Political Correctness] is the verbal equivalent of burning books. It is mind and thought control, pure and simple. Gary Sepp
People who think they know everything are especially annoying to those of us who do. Author Unknown
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the right thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not. Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825-1895
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill
Politically controlled education cannot be trusted to enlighten people on the perils of political power. James Bovard
Politicians have a field day misleading Americans who, as a result of having been dumbed down by our education system, can't think, reason or analyze. Walter Williams
Prayer: The only kind of speech the First Amendment doesn't protect. Rush Limbaugh
Public schools are forbidden from mentioning religion not because of the Constitution, but because public schools are the Left's madrassas... At least the crazy Muslims get funding from Saudi Arabia for their madrassas. Liberals force normal Americans to pay for their religious schools. Ann Coulter (Godless: The Church of Liberalism, 2006)
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teaches our children. Vice President Al Gore (18 Sep 1995)
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Loomis Pound
Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance. Confucius
Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. Ordinance of 1787 posted at the Class Gateway of Ohio University
Remember, my son, and learn wisdom in thy youth. Book of Mormon, Alma 37:35
Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would. John Adams (Boston Gazette, 5 Sep 1763, reprinted in 3 The Works of John Adams 438 (Charles F. Adams ed. 1851)
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a person's upper chamber if he has common sense on the ground floor. Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. Carl Sagan
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind. Albert Einstein
Secondary school curricula have been homogenized, diluted, and diffused to the point that they no longer have a central purpose. In effect, we have a cafeteria-style curriculum in which the appetizers and desserts can easily be mistaken for the main course. A Nation at Risk
Seek not for riches, but for wisdom. Doctrine and Covenants 6:7
Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith. Doctrine and Covenants 88:118
Senator Obama is for making college 'affordable,' as if he has never considered that government subsidies push up tuition, just as government subsidies push up agricultural prices, the price of medical care and other prices. Dr. Thomas Sowell
Seventy-four percent of 1998 high school seniors were considered by educators to be too ignorant of the political system to make reasonable ballot choices. Robert S Wieder, Raw Data: Significa, Insignifica, Stats and Facts, April, 2000
Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up? We cannot... Anything received into the mind at that age is likely to become indelible and unalterable; and therefore it is most important that the tales which the young first hear should be models of virtuous thought. Plato
Some people never learn anything because they understand everything too soon Alexander Pope
Study and learn, and become acquainted with all good books, and with languages, tongues, and people. Doctrine and Covenants 90:15
Taint what a man dont know that hurts him; its what he knows that just aint so. Kin Hubbard
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. Bill Beattie
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. B.B. King, Blues musician
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth. Pierre Abelard
The cruelty of most people is lack of imagination, their brutality is ignorance. Kurt Tucholsky
The education of a man is never complete until he dies. Robert E. Lee
The fact that 40% of American scientists believe in God indicates that 60% of scientists aren't doing their jobs. Sam Harris, Atheist
The fate of empires depends on the education of youth. Aristotle
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. Maria Montessori (1870-1952) Italian educator and physician
The glory of God is intelligence, or in other words, light and truth. Doctrine and Covenants 93:36
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. John F. Kennedy, US President
The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country. Benjamin Franklin (Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania, 1749)
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. George Santayana
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. John F. Kennedy
The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.' Maria Montessori (1870-1952) Italian educator and physician
The idea that other people don't have the same rights that you do was once the mark of the ignorant. But today it is the mark of too many of our elite universities, where those who disagree with the prevailing political correctness are either silenced by speech codes or shouted down if they are speakers invited on campus to present a different viewpoint. Thomas Sowell
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. John F. Kennedy, 1963
The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education. Joseph F. Smith
The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. Thomas Merton
The lottery is a tax on people who can't do math. Author Unknown
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. Mark Twain
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. Thomas Jefferson
The mere stuffing of the mind with a knowledge of facts is not education. Joseph F. Smith (Gospel Doctrine, p 269)
The mind is like a TV set - when it's blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound. Brian Crane in 'Pickles'
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch
The most expensive piece of real estate is the six inches between your right and left ear. It's what you create in that area that determines your wealth. We are only really limited by our mind. Dr. Dolf de Roos
The most important difference between business and academia is this: In business everything is dog-eat-dog. In academia it is just the reverse. E. John Rosenwald, Jr.
The national average of those who are employed in the area in which they received a degree hovers around 2%. Had I known that when I was sacrificing for my education, I wouldn't have gone to college at all! For those graduating with my degree, the percentages are less than that. However, looking back I would have made a terrible mistake to not go to college. In the end, it wasn't the college degree and the old sheepskin that was so important to me. It was the process of learning itself. Glenn Kimball
The newborn child is almost an exact duplicate of an empty computer, although superior to such a computer in almost every way....What is placed in the child's brain during the first eight years of his life is probably there to stay. If you put misinformation into his brain during this period, it is extremely difficult to erase it. Dr. Glenn J. Doman, How to Teach Your Baby to Read (1979), p 43, 45
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert Maynard Hutchins
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. Bishop Mandell Creighton
The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments. Benjamin Rush
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. Herodotus
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. Niels Bohr
The presumption in America today -- first for the poor, but increasingly for all of us -- is that our children belong to the state. The state allows those children to remain 'out on loan' to their natural birth parents only so long as you meet all the government's requirements: Every vaccination recommended by the major pharmaceutical firms, no matter how dangerous or statistically useless. No guns in the house; no strange faith-healing religious beliefs. And you'd better make sure your kid reports to the local government youth propaganda camp from the age of 6 ... or is it 5 now? ... so the local educrats get their subsidies based on a full complement of little butts to warm the seats. Vin Suprynowicz
The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function of schools is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we normally label state indoctrination. Wendy McElroy, Demystifying the State
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live. Mortimer Adler
The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do. BF Skinner
There are impelling reasons for our sisters to plan toward employment. . . .We want them to obtain all the education and vocational training possible before marriage. If they become widowed or divorced and need to work, we want them to have dignified and rewarding employment. If a sister does not marry, she has every right to engage in a profession that allows her to magnify her talents and gifts. Howard W. Hunter (Ensign, Nov. 1975, p 124)
There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge. Roger Bacon
There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own. Berenice Abbott (1898-1991)
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. James Thurber
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. Alfred Korzybski
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. Elbert Hubbard
There is a correlation between intellectualism and wisdom. Intellectuals tend to possess less of the latter. Selwyn Duke
There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily. George Washington
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island . . . and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life. Walt Disney
There is no darkness but ignorance: let us flood the world with light. Robert Ingersoll
There is no money lost that is used in educating the people. Olympia Brown
There is no sight more fearful than ignorance in action. Goethe
There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance. Goethe
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. Will Rogers
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. Archibald McLeish
There's no comfort in the learning zone and no learning in the comfort zone. Author Unknown
[The Rev. Richard John] Neuhaus told a reporter that political corruption had "been around ever since that unfortunate afternoon in the garden." The reporter mulled it over before asking, "What garden was that?" In defense of the American educational system, every single one of these reporters knew how to put on a condom. Ann Coulter (Godless: The Church of Liberalism, 2006)
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Albert Einstein
The single most prevalent form of child abuse in this country is the act of sending a child to a government school. We worry incessantly about the separation of church and state. We would do well to devote half as much attention to the separation of government and education. Neal Boortz
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. Andrew Ross
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. Abraham Lincoln
The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
The truth which makes men free is, for the most part, the truth which men prefer not to hear. Herbert Sebastian Agar
The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. Phyllis Schlafly
They know enough who know how to learn. Henry Adams
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. Henry Ford
Thinking is what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. William James
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
Those who don't read have no advantage over those who can't read. Mark Twain
Time is our greatest teacher, however it kills all its students! Author Unknown
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. Marilyn vos Savant
To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. Maria Montessori (1870-1952) Italian educator and physician
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. A. B. Alcott
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. Cicero
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated. Kristopher Paull
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. Theodore Roosevelt
To improve teaching, we must attract people of higher intellectual ability and we must make teacher salaries related to ability and effectiveness. We must ensure that teachers have more academic freedom, better working conditions and a suitable environment for teaching. An important component of that environment is the capacity to remove students who are alien and hostile to the education process. Finally, we should consider curriculum changes that eliminate courses that have little, if anything, to do with reading, writing and arithmetic. The low academic quality of many of our teachers is neither flattering nor comfortable to confront, but confront it we must if we're to do anything about our sorry state of education. Walter Williams
To know one's ignorance is part of knowledge. Author Unknown
To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is disease. Lao Tzu
To learn is to change. George B. Leonard
To limit an individual's education is to limit his freedom. A sound education is the fastest, and sometimes the only, way out of poverty. Gerald Reynolds, Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights
To make headway, improve your head. B. C. Forbes
Too many suburban parents may be too easily satisfied that their schools are doing a good job because the students there score in the top 10 percent or 20 percent on standardized tests. Suburban schools may look good compared to inner-city schools, but both look bad compared to their counterparts in other countries. Thomas Sowell
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. Roger Lewin
To prevent inquiry is among the worst of evils. Thomas Holcroft
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. Author Unknown
To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond. Hypatia of Alexandria
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature or art, but in the development of character. True education awakens a desire to conserve health by keeping the body clean and undefiled. True education trains in self-denial and self-mastery. True education regulates the temper, subdues passion and makes obedience to social laws and moral order a guiding principle of life. It develops reason and inculcates faith in the living God as the eternal loving Father of all. David O. McKay (Conference Report, Apr 1928, p 102)
True education seeks, then, to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men, combined with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love-men and women who prize truth, justice, wisdom, benevolence, and self-control as the choicest acquisitions of a successful life. David O. McKay (Gospel Ideals, p 440-441)
True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does. Hugh Nibley
Try to know everything of something, and something of everything. Henry Peter
Unfortunately, the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition, which charted President Thomas Jefferson's prescient Louisiana Purchase and opened up the American West, is getting a lukewarm reception as it makes its way across the country, tracing the footsteps of this historic journey. Tepid crowds are greeting the re-enactors, which shouldn't be a surprise in the wake of academia's roughly 40-year assault on what used to pass for conventional American history. Is it any wonder that with a curriculum that reduces the accomplishments of Jefferson and the other Founders to 'slave owners' the Corps of Discovery would be viewed as a less-than-noble lot? ... Just ask Emily Isaacs, age 10, a fifth-grader.... Did you study Lewis and Clark in school? 'We did a little bit,' she said sheepishly, 'last year.' What can you tell me about them? 'I can't think of anything,' she said after an awkward silence. And while she didn't know much about Lewis and Clark, she knew a lot about Columbus. 'He brought over diseases,' she said eagerly. It reminded me of the time I asked my nephew what he'd learned in school about World War II. 'Well, I know the Germans were bad,' he said with equal trepidation. 'But I know we were bad, too.' In their defense, neither is the class dunce. They're merely repeating what passes for history these days. Wall Street Journal (2003)
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. Ambrose Bierce
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. Benjamin Franklin
We are raising a generation of people who are historically illiterate and ignorant of the basic philosophical foundations of our constitutional free society. We need to know the Constitution, and we don't. When you have students at our Ivy League colleges saying they thought Germany and Japan were our allies in World War II, you know we've got a very serious problem. David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, author, past president of the Society of American Historians who also noted that only three colleges in the United States require a course on the Constitution in order to graduate: the US Military Academy at West Point, the Naval Academy at Annapolis and the Air Force Academy
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at least with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are simultaneously supposed to gasp in awe at teachers' raw dedication and be forced to listen to their incessant caterwauling about how they don't make enough money. Well, which is it? Are they dedicated to teaching or are they in it for the money? After all the carping about how little teachers are paid, if someone enters the teaching profession for the big bucks, aren't they too stupid to be teaching our kids? Ann Coulter (Godless: The Church of Liberalism, 2006)
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. Michel de Montaigne
We cannot justify mentally shifting into neutral and failing to exert our efforts to progress intellectually. Whether or not you are in school, the challenge is the same. We should continue learning throughout our lives. Joe J. Christensen (New Era, Jan 1998)
We encourage our youth in every country to get an education. Even if at times it seems hopeless. With determination and faith in the Lord, you will be blessed with success. It is a dream well worth pursuing. Boyd K. Packer (Ensign, Nov 1992, p 73)
We have thousands of times more available information than Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln. Yet which of us would think ourselves a thousand times more educated or more serviceable to our fellowmen than they? The sublime quality of what these two men gave to us-including the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address-was not attributable to their great resources of information, for their libraries were comparatively small by our standards. Theirs was the wise and inspired use of a limited amount of information. Available information wisely used is far more valuable than multiplied information allowed to lie fallow. Dallin H. Oaks (Ensign, May 2001, p 82)
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. Oscar Wilde
We must gain learning, but we must apply it wisely. Otherwise, we have politics without principle, industry without morality, knowledge without wisdom, science without humanity! Russell M. Nelson (Ensign, Nov 1984, p 30)
We must seek diversity of interests; . . . and try to balance work for the body and work for the mind. Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
We're all ignorant, just on different subjects. Will Rogers
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. C.L. de Montesquieu
We want...to be alive in the cause of education. We are commanded of the Lord to obtain knowledge, both by study and by faith, seeking it out of the best books [see D&C 88:118]. And it becomes us to teach our children, and afford them instruction in every branch of education calculated to promote their welfare. John Taylor (Teachings of Presidents of the Church, p 89)
What Americans need is not a new federal education program but the absence of all federal education programs... If Americans are to take our Constitution and the education of our children seriously, we need to wake up, reclaim our power, and 'Just Say No' to federal control of education. Michael Ostrolenk
What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook. Henry David Thoreau
Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. George Washington
Whatever principle of intelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection. And if a person gains more knowledge and intelligence in this life through his diligence and obedience than another, he will have so much the advantage in the world to come. Doctrine & Covenants 130:18-19
What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know; it's what we know for sure that just ain't so. Yogi Berra
What I'm asking for is the freedom to follow the evidence wherever it leads. Dr. Richard Sternberg, Evolutionary biologist of the Smithsonian Institution who was demoted after approving an article that supported intelligent design
What on earth have a man's degree, academic position, and, of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true or not? Hugh Nibley
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. Joseph Addison
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
What we desperately need is to recognize and acquire that quality which converts knowledge into wisdom. Marion G. Romney (Ensign, Jul 1983, p 5)
What we have learned from others becomes our own reflection. Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years. Mark Twain
When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations. Marilyn vos Savant
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? Lord John Maynard Keynes, British economist
While we respect Prof. Behes right to express his views, they are his alone and are in no way endorsed by the department. It is our collective position that intelligent design has no basis in science, has not been tested experimentally and should not be regarded as scientific. Lehigh University's disclaimer on the dissenting views on evolution expressed by Dr. Michael Behe, Professor of Biochemistry (Umm, does evolution really have a "basis in science" and has it been "tested experimentally"?)
While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying. Marilyn vos Savant
Who so neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. Euripides
Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds? Hmmmmm
Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song? Stephen Wright
Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties, and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates... to cherish the interest of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them. John Adams (Thoughts on Government, 1776)
Wisdom is knowing how little we know. Socrates
Wisdom outweighs any wealth. Sophocles
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. Abraham Joshua Heschel
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Bible, John 8:32
You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself. Galileo Galilei, astronomer, physicist, philosopher
You can observe a lot by watching. Observing is learning. If you pay attention, you can learn a lot. Yogi Berra
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. Jawaharlal Nehru
You need all the education you can get. Sacrifice a car; sacrifice anything that is needed to be sacrificed to qualify yourselves to do the work of the world. That world will in large measure pay you what it thinks you are worth, and your worth will increase as you gain education and proficiency in your chosen field. Gordon B. Hinckley (Ensign, Jan 2001, p 2)
Your talents will expand as you study and learn. You will be able to better assist your families in their learning, and you will have peace of mind in knowing that you have prepared yourself for the eventualities that you may encounter in life. Thomas S. Monson (Liahona, Nov 2007, p 118-21)
You use the name of Deity in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution of the United States, and yet you cannot use it in the schoolroom. Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of Great Britain
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