Education Quotes
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.Plutarch, Morals
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.Tom Robbins
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.Tryon Edwards
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.Herbert Spence
Education a debt due from present to future generations.George Peabody
An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe
The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.Albert Einstein
Education is the movement from darkness to light.Allan Bloom
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.John F. Kennedy
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.George Bernard Shaw
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.Aristotle
What is defeat Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.Wendell Phillips
The so - Called method of co - Education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training.Pope Pius XI
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.Author Unknown
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.Felix G. Rohatyn
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.Alexandre Dumas
Education is a state - Controlled manufactory of echoes.Norman Douglas
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.Mark Twain
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.Thomas H. Huxley
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.Paul Karl Feyerabend
The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.William James
The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - Men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.Jean Piaget
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.Russell Green
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.Elbert Hubbard
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.Sir Walter Scott
Education is like a double - Edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.Wu Ting - Fang
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.James Truslow Adams
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.Joseph Addison
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.Lillian Smith
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.John W. Gardne
Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.Bertrand Russell
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.Robert Frost
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.Benjamin Franklin
Education has for its object the formation of character.Herbert Spence
