English Education Quotes

What le Carré is so good at is unpicking something very specific about Englishness. That is almost part of why I think he wrote the novel. You can feel le Carré's anger that someone who has had the benefits of an English education and an English upbringing is using that privilege to basically do the worst things imaginable. There is an anger in the book about that.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

In the days of Ram Mohan Roy when English education was introduced in this country, the Mahomedans did not accept it... They did not accept English education and at the same time they were divorced from the culture which their fathers had advanced. The result was that whereas the Hindus got on in life, got into government employment, got many things which people value in life, the Mahomedans were left without it and gradually there came to be a sort of estrangement between the two nationalities at the time of the Swadeshi movement.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds...

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.