Education Quotes

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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
Abraham lincoln - upon the subject of education, not presuming to...
B. f. skinne - education is what survives when what has been...
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
Emerson
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Sir Walter Scott
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 highest result of education is tolerance.
Hellen Kelle
A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.
Author Unknown
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
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.
Vartan Gregorian
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
Burk Hudson
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - - Rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Bill Beattie
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
Alice James
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 a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
Aristotle
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.
Wilson Mizne
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
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.
Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes
We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.
Robert Hutchins
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
James R. Angell
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
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
Groucho Marx
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
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!
Andy McIntyre
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
The so - Called method of co - Education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training.
Pope Pius XI
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
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
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
Claiborne Pell
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
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