Education Quotes

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The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Robert E. Lee
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
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
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
Woody Allen
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
G. K. Chesterton
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman
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 real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Bishop Creighton
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
Henry Adams
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
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
What is defeat Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
Formal education will make you a living self - Education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
Irwin Edman
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
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Baron Henry Peter Brougham
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
Erich Fromm
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody Allen
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
Victor Hugo
Successful education is always a two - way street.
Dirk Van Der Elst, Culture as Given, Culture as Choice
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
Michel de Montaigne
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Roosevelt, Eleano
The end of all education should surely be service to others.
Cesar E. Chavez
The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - Men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.
Jean Piaget
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 advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
William John Bennett
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
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 a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.
Robert Hutchins
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898.
Mark Twain
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
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
Unknown
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 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".