Education Quotes

Felix g. rohatyn - what is desperately needed... is the skepticism...
Henry peter brougham - education makes people easy to lead, but...
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.
Frank Zappa, Liner notes from the album, "Freak Out, " 1965
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.
Albert Einstein
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
Lady Nancy Asto
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Robert M. Hutchins
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 a debt due from present to future generations.
George Peabody
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
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
Formal education will earn you a living, self - Education make you a fortune.
Unknown
Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.
Charles Monroe Schultz
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
Emerson
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
Author Unknown
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
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.
Robert Hutchins
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
John Lubbock
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes
Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.
Kahlil Gibran
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
Will Rogers, Autobiography (1949) chapter 6
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
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
Josephine Tey
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
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
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
Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest.
Jimmy Swaggart
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
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
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John Ruskin
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Sir Walter Scott
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!
Andy McIntyre
I never let schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Education is life itself.
John Dewey