Education Quotes

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Hellen Kelle

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

John W. Gardne

Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.

Frank Zappa, Liner notes from the album, "Freak Out, " 1965

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self - Confidence.

Robert Frost

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

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

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Wendell Phillips

Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.

Evan Edga

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!

Sonjay Anand

Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.

Author Unknown

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tryon Edwards

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

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

Felix G. Rohatyn

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Henry C. Rogers

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 inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Plato

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 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

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

Robert E. Lee

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

Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

Robert Hutchins

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964

Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest.

Jimmy Swaggart

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

Charles Monroe Schultz

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.

Alexandre Dumas

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John F. Kennedy

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

Josephine Tey

Formal education will make you a living self - Education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Karl Kraus

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Chuang - Tzu

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 that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

Bertrand Russell

Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.

Irwin Edman

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 real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

Bishop Creighton

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

Xenophon