Maria W. Stewart Quotes

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to train people will develop the intelligence of those who have it and end the stupidity of those who do not, providing a specialty to those who have narrow talent and broad knowledge to those with all-around ability.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

Schools teach ignorance.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

Just it's as close to magic as you can get in America, education.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.