Education Quotes
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.
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
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.Bertrand Russell
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.John Ruskin
Education has for its object the formation of character.Herbert Spence
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?Alan Perlis
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.Wilson Mizne
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
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.B. F. Skinne
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.Alice James
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.Norman Cousins
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
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 advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.Russell Green
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.George Bernard Shaw
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.Robert E. Lee
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.Albert E. Wiggam
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
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.Aristotle
Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.Mark Twain
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
There are two classes of poets - The poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Formal education will earn you a living, self - Education make you a fortune.Unknown
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.Mark Twain
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.James Truslow Adams
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.Stephen Vizinczey
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
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.Oscar Wilde
A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.Author Unknown
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.Woody Allen
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
Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.Arnold Edinborough
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898.Mark Twain
