Quotes About Education Vs Common Sense

#1. The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.

Michelle Rodriguez

#2. It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#3. Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.

John Dewey

#4. Phd without common sense is nonsense

Sekoni Sullivan

#5. In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn about the world around them, develop a sense of civic and social responsibility, and discover how they can contribute to the common good?

Ernest L. Boyer

#6. Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

Victor Hugo

#7. You know what speed is. You would not believe a man who claimed to walk at 5 miles an hour, but took 3 hours to walk 6 miles. You have only to apply the same common sense to stones rolling down hillsides, and the calculus is at your command.

W.W. Sawyer

#8. Everyday there are people in our world that do absolutely amazing things. People of all ages are very capable of doing tremendous, courageous things in spite of their fear.

Mairead Corrigan

#9. My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

Dalai Lama

#10. I should have been sorry for her, at any other time; but for now if they had laid her and ten more ladies like her down upon the floor and told me my way out was across their backs, I'd have run it with clogs on.

Sarah Waters

#11. Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

William Osler

#12. Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly,
darling Westly, adored Westly, sweet perfect Westly, whisper that I have a chance to win your love. And with that, she dared the bravest thing she'd ever done: she looked right into his eyes.
He closed the door in her face.

William Goldman

#13. Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.

Benjamin Franklin

#14. Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

Diane Ravitch

#15. It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

James Russell Lowell

#16. Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

Derek Bok

#17. Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.

Vikas Swarup

#18. Common Courtesy, like common sense, does not require any level of education or status. Anyone and everyone can participate. But we need to remember we are not like cats with their kitty litter boxes, we are not born with this knowledge, we must be taught by someone.

Mitzi Taylor

#19. Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#20. To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

John Dryden

#21. Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.

Sarah Palin

#22. There was the world of the sick and dying and the world of the hale. The healthy and hale did not want to know anything about the sick and dying.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#23. Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Victor Hugo

#25. I may not have all the education but I do have common sense, and I know how to treat people.

Kay Mills

#26. I fear you close by; I love you far away.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#27. Family is not an important thing, it is everything

Michael J. Fox

#28. Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

#29. I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

Jerry Lewis

#30. If you don't have common sense, ask someone who does

Sonya Withrow