Robert Sapolsky Quotes

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

A good education alters the judgment and manners…

Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Education is the development of power and ideal.

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

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

Few things are as essential as education.

Without question, students need to practice, review, and drill skills, but they should do so only in the spirit of working toward more complex mastery of those skills. Redundant drill of skills is inherently boring and insulting to the learner, and it is one of the most effective methods for turning students off to learning.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.

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

I'm a big believer in education, period.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.