Terry Eagleton Quotes

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian.

School is very important; it was very important for me. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence, especially at Yale where we were dealing with all the classics. In dealing with the classics, you are dealing with the very best.

Universities are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry

I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all education.

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Perhaps I was always intensely curious, but my Columbia education gave me a framework and a perspective to investigate new things - things that could be put into a historical and philosophical lineage.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

The value of a good education has never left me.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.