Education Quotes

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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
William John Bennett
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody Allen
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
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
Aristotle
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
Erich Fromm
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman
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
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898.
Mark Twain
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
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
Emerson
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.
Alexandre Dumas
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green
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
The end of all education should surely be service to others.
Cesar E. Chavez
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
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
Abraham Lincoln
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A Bartlett Giamatti
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
George Santayana
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
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas
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
The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Bishop Creighton
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
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spence
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
Oscar Wilde
The so - Called method of co - Education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training.
Pope Pius XI
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 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
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
William Butler Yeats
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
James Truslow Adams
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown
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 purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.
Otto Kleppne