Grace Paley Quotes

I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.

Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such as Spanish. Religion may not be as indispensable, but the humanities should be a part of our repertory. They may not enrich our wallets, but they do enrich our lives. They civilize us. They provide context.

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

A good education alters the judgment and manners…

Education is the development of power and ideal.

Trying to get somebody excited about learning and trying to get somebody to think in a moral context have begun to have a lot more significance to me.

Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.

If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children's education.

When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Few things are as essential as education.

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

A person's current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.