Quotes about education
402 quotes from 240 people
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
Sydney Smith1771–1845“Female Education” (review of Thomas Broadhurst, Advice to Young Ladies on the Improvement of Mind, 1808), in The Edinburgh Review, No. 30 (January 1810), p. 314- Sydney Smith1771–1845Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1849)
Socrates470–399 BCII: xxxi. Original Greek: ἓν μόνον ἀγαθὸν εἶναι, τὴν ἐπιστήμην, καὶ ἓν μόνον κακόν, τὴν ἀμαθίαν- Socrates470–399 BCPlato, Republic, 493a
He knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.
Thomas Sowellborn 1930Knowledge and Decisions (1980; 1996), Ch. 1 : The Role of Knowledge
Herbert Spencer1820–1903Social Statics (1851), Pt. II, Ch. 17: The Rights of ChildrenEducation is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Joseph Stalin1878–1953Interview with H. G. Wells (23 July 1934)Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein1874–1946Reflections on the Atom Bomb (1946)
John Steinbeck1902–1968“…like captured fireflies” (1955)- John Steinbeck1902–1968The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Ch. III
