Education Quotes
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Aristotle
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Auden, W.H.
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
Bennett, William J.
[E]ducation is, after all, a serious business. Its lifeblood is standards. If there are no standards, how do we call something higher education?
Bennett, William J.
[A]ll real education is the architecture of the soul.
Berlioz, Hector Louis
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Bible
Train a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it. (Proverb 12:6)
Bierce, Ambrose
Education, n. That which discloses tothe wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Bok, Derek
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Bourne, Alec
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Chesterton, G.K.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Churchill, Winston
It is a good thing for an un educatedman to read books of quotations.
Cousins, Norman
It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.
Creighton, Bishop Mandell
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
de Montaigne, Michel
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
Durant, Will
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Durant, Will
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Edman, Irsin
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
Edwards, Tryon
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Einstein, Albert
Education is a series of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
Feyerabend, Paul Karl
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
Forbes, Malcolm
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Ford, Henry
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
Franklin, Benjamin
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Fromm, Erich
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Fromm, Erich
Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Gallardo, Allen
To quote is to think, to think is to learn, to learn is to live.
Geddes, J.
As far as I can see, the greater amount of education which a part of the working class has employed for some years past, is an evil. It is dangerous because it makes them independent.
Green Russell
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
Haliburton
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
Hamilton, Edith
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated.
Harris, Sydney J.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
Harris, Sydney J.
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Holmes Sr., Oliver Wendell
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
Hubbard, Elbert
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
Hugo, Victor
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Hutchins, Robert Maynard
It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.
Hutchins, Robert Maynard
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
Hutchins, Robert Maynard
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Huxley, Thomas H.
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
Huxley, Thomas H.
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.
Iles, George
Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
Inge, Dean William R.
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
Ingersoll, R.S.
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
James, William
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
Keller, Helen
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
Kennedy, John F.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Kennedy, John F.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
Laertius, Diogenes
When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, As much as the living are to the dead.
Lee, Robert E.
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Levinson, Leonard L.
Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.
Locke, John
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
Lubbock, John
Here are three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought ot help us to answer these questions.
Mann, Horace
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Mizner, William
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
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Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.
Peabody, George
Education: A debt due from present to future generations.
Peter, Laurence
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Petronius
I'm sure the reason such young nitwits are produced in our schools is because they have no contact with anything of any use in everyday life.
Petronius
Scimus te prae litteras fatuumesse. (We know that you are mad with much learning.)
Plato
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.
Pope Pius XI
Education belongs preeminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.
Pope, Alexander
'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
Pope, Alexander
A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Pope, Alexander
Some people never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.
Pound, Ezra
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
Pusey, Nathan M.
If there is anything education does not lack today, it is critics.
Reagan, Ronald
We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.
Rizzo, Frank
We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.
Robbins, Tom
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Rogers, Will
There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Rogers, Will
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing he was educated in.
Salazar, Antoniode Oliveira
In the newspapers I often read this pitiful sentence: The people must be taught to read, and I say to myself, What shall they read? It is education and undesirable literature, these are our enemies.
Schultz, Charles
Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.
Seeger, Pete
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
Shaw, George Bernard
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
Skinner, B.F.
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
Stalin, Joseph
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Thoreau, Henry David
What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.
Trevelyan, George Macaulay
Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Twain, Mark
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Twain, Mark
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.
White, Terence Hanbury
"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust ,never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn."
Wilde, Oscar
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and education for making a living.
Yeats, William Butler
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.