Education Quotes
The end of all education should surely be service to others.Cesar E. Chavez
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.John Maynard Keynes
The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.Bishop Creighton
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.James R. Angell
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.Francis Keppel
The giving of love is an education in itself.Roosevelt, Eleano
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.Derek Curtis Bok
Formal education will make you a living self - Education will make you a fortune.Jim Rohn
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.Plato
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.Baron Henry Peter Brougham
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.John F. Kennedy
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898.Mark Twain
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.Aleister Crowley
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.Henry Peter Brougham
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind - Manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea.Aldous Huxley
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.B. F. Skinne
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.Nelson Mandela
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.Frank Zappa
She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.John Mason Brown
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.Josephine Tey
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.Victor Hugo
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.Grayson Kirk
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.Henry Steele Commage
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.Wendell Phillips
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.Mark Twain
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.Groucho Marx
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.Plato
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.Barbara M. White
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.Henry Louis Mencken
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.Anna James
Much that passes for education... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.David P Gardne
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.Karl Kraus
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well - Being of the community - These are the most vital things education must try to produce.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.Oscar Wilde
