Education Quotes

Terry pratchett, hogfathe - an education was a bit like a communicable sexual...
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison
Robert e. lee - the education of a man is never completed until...
Author unknown - a college education never hurt anybody who was...
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Pete
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
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 very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch, Morals
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
Felix G. Rohatyn
The end of all education should surely be service to others.
Cesar E. Chavez
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
Erich Fromm
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman Cousins
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green
Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.
Evan Edga
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 whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
William James
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
Alice James
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
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898.
Mark Twain
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
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 is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
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
To repeat what others have said, requires education to challenge it, requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole
Education is like a double - Edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.
Wu Ting - Fang
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
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas
Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.
Bertrand Russell
Education a debt due from present to future generations.
George Peabody
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.
Albert Einstein
Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.
Mark Twain
She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
Stephen Vizinczey
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
Irwin Edman