Education Quotes
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 wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.Alice James
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.Oscar Wilde
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
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.John Maynard Keynes
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 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 the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.Robert Frost
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 begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.Paul E. Gray
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.Edward Everett
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!Sonjay Anand
Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.Kahlil Gibran
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
Formal education will earn you a living, self - Education make you a fortune.Unknown
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.Russell Green
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Lady Nancy Asto
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.Plato, The Republic
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.Theodore Roosevelt
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.Sir Walter Scott
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.Joseph Addison
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.Albert Einstein
Successful education is always a two - way street.Dirk Van Der Elst, Culture as Given, Culture as Choice
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
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.Aleister Crowley
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.Robert M. Hutchins
Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.Evan Edga
Education a debt due from present to future generations.George Peabody
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.Karl Kraus
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.Erich Fromm
