Education Quote by Paul Russell

“Louis thought he would be all for a back-to-the-basics drive in education: a teacher, an olive tree, a bit of midday wine (the Greeks…

— Paul Russell

“What was education for, if not to acquire contradictions? At least it looked like that to me. ”

— Lorrie Moore

“There was always something sly about any act of education. Eve had learned that in the garden.”

— Paul Russell

“Education teaches us many things: but nothing worth knowing can be taught. It has to be caught – through fellowship with the true, the…

— Dada J.P. Vaswani

“...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the…

— Terry Pratchett

“Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them out of the grime and dirt.”

— Betty Smith

“I needed to pass on those secrets to a man I knew well. All my students are terribly virtuous and only show their good…

— Paulo Coelho

“Education is a great treasure.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Education is the antidote to many poisons.”

— Steve Maraboli

“Someone once said that education was knowing what to do when you don’t know,”

— Michael Lewis

“Yet there was something intoxicating about a teacher who had such absolute confidence—faith, really—in my ability to do better. Whatever I managed to achieve,…

— Joanne Lipman