Education Quote by Jacques Barzun Download Open image “no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.” — Jacques Barzun ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Important Intellectual Reading Study Subjects
Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything. — Tomie dePaola Copy Share Image
Reading is important because it makes you smarter and lets you find out about things you're curious about. — Alex Wolff Copy Share Image
I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
It's not necessary to have read everything about a particular subject in order to get interested in it. The main thing is to sort… — Francois Englert Copy Share Image
Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it,… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Everybody keeps calling for Excellence - excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent,… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image