George Savile Quotes

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

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Everything is educational.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

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 activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The best university is the university of life.

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

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

Words and ideas work in the short run to get you through school and to impress educators and employers. But they do not work in the long run or in the deep run. We soon find ourselves separate and without wonder.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

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

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.