Education Quotes
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.Burk Hudson
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.Vartan Gregorian
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
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 so - Called method of co - Education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training.Pope Pius XI
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.Mark Twain
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - - Rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.Bill Beattie
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.Paul E. Gray
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.Robert Frost
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.Benjamin Franklin
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.Erich Fromm
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 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
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
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.Wilson Mizne
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.Henry Adams
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!Sonjay Anand
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
We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.Robert Hutchins
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Nancy Asto
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.B. F. Skinne
The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.Otto Kleppne
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 ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self - Confidence.Robert Frost
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.Derek Curtis Bok
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.William Ralph Inge
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.Barnaby C. Keeney
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 things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.Michel de Montaigne
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
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.Clarence Thomas
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
Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.S. Barry Lipkin
Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.Evan Edga
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.A Bartlett Giamatti
