Florence King Quotes

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

This great Western institution, the university, dominates the world today more than any other institution: more than the church, more than the government, more than all other institutions. All the leaders of government are graduates of universities, or at least of secondary schools or colleges whose administrators and teachers are themselves graduates of universities….professionals—doctors, engineers, lawyers, etc. have all passed through the mill of the secondary school, the college and the university. And the men of the media are university trained

I think when a teacher says that you're ready for something, it means you're ready to learn it. It doesn't always mean that you are completely capable of doing everything that's inside the piece.

I do think we have collectively begun to conflate the institutions of education for education itself. Education is an individual's pursuit of understanding and has a lot of implications for that person, for the kind of person that they are.

Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )

They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge.

Education is like a diamond with many facets: It includes the basic mastery of numbers and letters that give us access to the treasury of human knowledge, accumulated and refined through the ages; it includes technical and vocational training as well as instruction in science, higher mathematics, and humane letters.

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

Education is only second to nature.

The education is the answer to everything, really, and on so many different levels. The minutiae of life require analytical skills that you learn in being educated, an ability to navigate the very systems that constitute life. They all require some degree of education, and if you don't get it, you're at a real disadvantage.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

I think college is an absolute. In this world you have to learn how to learn and get in the habit of always wanting to learn. Some kids have that out of high school and may be able to do the college equivalent of home schooling. Most kids can't. So I highly recommend going to college.

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.