Education Quotes

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

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Benjamin Disraeli

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

Tom Clancy, "The Teeth Of The Tiger" - - Page 180

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Horace Mann

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

Alan Simpson

To repeat what others have said, requires education to challenge it, requires brains.

Mary Pettibone Poole

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Allan Bloom

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Stephen Vizinczey

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Henry Peter Brougham

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 makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Henry Peter Brougham

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

William John Bennett

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Claiborne Pell

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

John Ruskin

Education is the best provision for old age.

Aristotle

Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.

S. Barry Lipkin

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Plutarch, Morals

The end of all education should surely be service to others.

Cesar E. Chavez

Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

Unknown

Education must provide the opportunities for self - Fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Noam Chomsky

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.

Wilson Mizne

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

James Truslow Adams

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Albert Einstein

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

Elbert Hubbard

Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.

Oscar Wilde

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

William Butler Yeats

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

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Mark Twain

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898.

Mark Twain

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

Victor Hugo

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.

Wendell Phillips

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.

R. D. Hitchcock

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