Education Quotes

Groucho marx - i find television very educational. the minute...
Karl rove, march 19, 2001 - as people do better, they start voting like...
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".
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
Barnaby C. Keeney
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
Henry Adams
Formal education will earn you a living, self - Education make you a fortune.
Unknown
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 too important to be left solely to the educators.
Francis Keppel
Education is a state - Controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman Douglas
Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.
Frank Zappa, Liner notes from the album, "Freak Out, " 1965
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
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
Author Unknown
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
Xenophon
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
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
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
Elbert Hubbard
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
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
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 object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins
Education is not received. It is achieved.
Author Unknown
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
Woody Allen
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
John Lubbock
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
Oscar Wilde
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
Benjamin Disraeli
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Hellen Kelle
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
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964
Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.
Charles Monroe Schultz
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
Emerson
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
Victor Hugo
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark Twain
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 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