Education Quotes
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.Henry Steele Commage
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.Clarence Thomas
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.Laurens Van der Post
Education is like a double - Edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.Wu Ting - Fang
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
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind - Manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea.Aldous Huxley
It is only the ignorant who despise education.Publilius Syrus
The giving of love is an education in itself.Roosevelt, Eleano
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 very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.Plutarch, Morals
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
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.Barbara M. White
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.Author Unknown
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.Plato
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.Norman Cousins
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.John Lubbock
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man.Lyndon B. Johnson
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
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 test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.Wendell Phillips
Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.Theodore Roosevelt
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 education of a man is never completed until he dies.Robert E. Lee
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
Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.Kahlil Gibran
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.G. M. Trevelyan
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898.Mark Twain
We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.Robert Hutchins
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.John Maynard Keynes
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
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.Victor Hugo
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.Francis Keppel
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
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.Mark Twain
