Education Quotes
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
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.Diogenes Laertius
Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.Calvin Coolidge
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.Woody Allen
I never let schooling interfere with my education.Mark Twain
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.Theodore Roosevelt
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.Baron Henry Peter Brougham
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 is the movement from darkness to light.Allan Bloom
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.John Dewey
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.Russell Green
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.Bertrand Russell
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.Bertrand Russell
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.Marian Wright Edelman
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.Alexandre Dumas
The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.Bishop Creighton
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.Robert Frost
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
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.William John Bennett
For if you suffer your people to be ill - Educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1
The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?Alan Perlis
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
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
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
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
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.Will Durant
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.John Maynard Keynes
A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.Author Unknown
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.Woody Allen
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.William Butler Yeats
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
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - - The power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.Johnson
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.Henry Adams
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.Henry C. Rogers
Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.S. Barry Lipkin
