Education Quotes
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self - Confidence.Robert Frost
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
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 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
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.Herbert Spence
Education is life itself.John Dewey
I never let schooling interfere with my education.Mark Twain
To repeat what others have said, requires education to challenge it, requires brains.Mary Pettibone Poole
Formal education will earn you a living, self - Education make you a fortune.Unknown
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.Paul Karl Feyerabend
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.Norman Cousins
What is defeat Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.Wendell Phillips
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
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.Joseph Addison
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.Laurence J. Pete
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964
Education a debt due from present to future generations.George Peabody
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
Education is a state - Controlled manufactory of echoes.Norman Douglas
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 is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.Karl Kraus
There are two classes of poets - The poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.Nelson Mandela
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Nancy Asto
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Lady Nancy Asto
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.Felix G. Rohatyn
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
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.Chuang - Tzu
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.Derek Curtis Bok
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
Our task is to provide an education for the kind of kids we have... Not the kind of kids we used to have... Or want to have... Or the kids that exist in our dreams.Mary Kay Utech
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.Sir Walter Scott
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.Russell Green
