Quotes About Being Well Educated

#1. being well educated has certain economic drawbacks. Victor's

Thomas J. Stanley

#2. That is the nature of being well educated. It is to accept the framework of power and not question it.

Noam Chomsky

#3. Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work of art is beautiful by being what Art has never been; and to measure it by the standard of the past is to measure it by a standard on the rejection of which its real perfection depends.

Oscar Wilde

#5. Schooling should not be left to the whim or wealth of village elders. I believe that we should fund all schools in the U.S. with our national resources. All these kids are being educated to be Americans, not citizens of Minneapolis or San Francisco.

Jonathan Kozol

#6. It's hard for an educated woman to turn her head off. That's part of the joy of being a submissive. None of the decisions are yours. When you can't refuse anything and can't even move, those voices in your head go silent. All you can do, and all you are permitted to do, is feel.

Cherise Sinclair

#7. H.M.," said the Woggle-Bug, pompously, "means Highly Magnified; and T.E. means Thoroughly Educated. I am, in reality, a very big bug, and doubtless the most intelligent being in all this broad domain."
"How well you disguise it," said the Wizard.

L. Frank Baum

#8. But we're not being educated in how to be, only in how to accomplish. So it's all about acquisition, about getting stuff we don't have ... As soon as you realize it's a thought pattern, you can write yourself a restraining order.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#9. The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

Philip K. Dick

#10. Being smart isn't good enough. You need to be educated, and you need to be open-minded, and you need to remember that what you don't know can most definitely hurt you.

Seanan McGuire

#11. It is in our incompleteness, of which we are aware, that education as a permanent process is grounded. Women and men are capable of being educated only to the extent that they are capable of recognizing themselves as unfinished.

Paulo Freire

#12. I grew up in an eclectic house where people were listening to all types of different music. I also think being educated, eloquent and knowing how to talk for yourself in the industry makes you go a long way.

Tinie Tempah

#13. I was educated in line with the basic premise: work work work. You are only a valuable human being if you work. This is utterly wrong. Half working, half dancing - that is the right mixture. I myself have danced and played too little.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#14. Research states that we have a two-week window to act after being inspired by an experience, before the brain is compelled to move on. I have always thought [that while some] documentaries I have seen have educated me, [they] have failed to engage and drive me to act in support of the message.

Sam Branson

#15. Today an educated, civilized society is turning its face while thousands of unborn babies are being killed. God Himself, if not history, will judge this greater holocaust.

Billy Graham

#16. It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.

Raymond Chandler

#17. I definitely want to be known as an educated person as well as being a good football player.

Ndamukong Suh

#18. The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will.

Frank Abagnale

#19. What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Sylvia Plath

#20. I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#21. Let's focus on how we can take someone who is being poorly educated in an American public school and how they are poorly trained for a job, and put in place those opportunities for them to get that education, give their parents choice in education, make it real for them.

Michael Steele

#22. He atones for being occasionally somewhat overdressed by being always absolutely over-educated. He is a very modern type.

Oscar Wilde

#23. I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom.

Robert H. Schuller

#24. One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare.

Judi Dench

#25. Is he well educated?"
"Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day ...

Gene Stratton-Porter

#26. In our society, we no longer pride ourselves on being educated, knowledgable, well-read. We prefer, instead, the illusion of erudition.

Michael Perkins

#27. Yes, being educated is definitely an advantage. But having said that, I've met so many people in life who haven't done very well at school but who are still really bright.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#28. I think I feel fortunate to have been very well educated in terms of strength and training while I was at school at Stanford, and I think our strength coaches here on the Colts do a great job. A big part of being able to withstand hits is making sure that you've got a good base.

Andrew Luck

#29. I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development.

Winona LaDuke

#30. Now in many cases - too many cases - the activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being.

John Dewey

#31. The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

Helen Keller

#32. I have met otherwise educated folks who haven't heard that cooked bones can kill a dog, so perhaps the vets are just being realists.

Carina MacDonald

#33. Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.

William Lyon Phelps

#34. Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media and make the right moves that will help them. The physical world is similar to the virtual world in many cases. It's about being aware. We can prevent many debacles if we're educated.

Amy Jo Martin

#35. The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they're being objective.

Noam Chomsky

#36. There is no chance of night baseball ever being popular in the bigger cities. People there are educated to see the best there is and will stand for only the best. High-class baseball cannot be played at night under artificial light.

Clark Griffith

#37. My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.

Dikembe Mutombo

#38. I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.

Shailene Woodley

#39. Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

David Landes

#40. If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomethings with choices, you're probably going to succeed.

Mick Cornett

#41. So much of becoming a good athlete involves bringing other things to the table, other than physical skills. It involves intelligence, it involves many of the things that you learn during the process of being educated. How to analyze, how to assess, how to equate, how to reason.

Julius Erving

#42. I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.

Gerald Durrell

#43. A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Horace Mann

#44. One of our greatest challenges is to handle Winning without arrogance, being educated without being condescending and having compassion without developing indifference

Kalon Jackson

#45. An educated woman is seen as a human being with a vagina. An uneducated woman is seen as a vagina with a human being.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#46. Banality depends on memory, as do irony and abstraction and boredom, three other defenses the educated mind deploys against experience so that it can get through the day without being continually, exhaustingly astonished.

Michael Pollan

#47. Today our youth is preoccupied with being rich and famous but is truly missing something. Sadly ... even money won't last if you're not educated. Knowledge Is Everything!

Timothy Pina

#48. The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

Oscar Wilde

#49. Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

Zaha Hadid

#50. Having an education is one thing, being educated is another.

Lee Kuan Yew

#51. And only well-informed, warm-hearted people can teach others things they'll always remember and love. Computers and TV don't do that. A computer teaches a child what a computer can become. An educated human being teaches a child what a child can become.

Kurt Vonnegut

#52. A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

Hyman Rickover

#53. Shouldn't let go of being educated," he said. "Universe spent a lot of time telling you something. Now you're second-guessing it. Maybe all those other things were getting you ready for this." Something

James S.A. Corey

#54. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

Edith Hamilton

#55. Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave.

Fatema Mernissi

#56. For years, Hizb-I-Islami fighters have had a reputation for being more educated and worldly than their Taliban counterparts, who are often illiterate farmers.

Anand Gopal