The Jewish Wisdom Database

Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.

I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.

Anybody who gets out of college having had his confidence in the perfection of existing institutions affirmed has not been educated. Just suffocated.

The best minister is the human heart; the best teacher is time; the best book is the world; the best friend is God.

In seeking wisdom the first step is silence, the second: listening, the third: remembering, the fourth: practicing, the fifth: teaching others.

Let the honor of your disciple be dear to you as your own!

Education is that which remains, when one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Education is: Making Men.

Learning is the raising of character by the broadening of vision and the deeping of feeling.

Thou shalt teach them [commandments] diligently to your children.

What is the grossest form of neglect? If a man does not. . . devote every effort toward the education of his children.

Moses ordained that Jews be addressed each holiday on the subject of that holiday, and he said to Israel: if you do this, it will be as if you established God's sovereignty.

We must endeavor to teach even the unintelligent.

Teach your children letters, that they may have understanding all their life, reading unceasingly the law of God.

The highest task of education is training for duty.

The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of the community their highest life problem.

Education...should concern itself primarily...with the liberation, organization, and direction of power and intelligence, with the development of taste, with culture.

Busy yourself as much as possible with the study of divine things, not to know them merely, but to do them; and when you close the book, look round you, look within you, to see if your hand can translate into deed something you have learned.

Arrange the ordinances in order, like a set table.

All education starts with forbidding.

Getting education is like getting measles; you have to go where measles is.

The prevailing pilosophy of education tends to discredit hard work.

He who learns by Finding Out has sevenfold The Skill of him who learned by Being Told.