Education Quotes

John w. gardne - i am entirely certain that twenty years from now...
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.
Albert Einstein
Henry c. rogers - upon books the collective education of the race...
John ruskin - education is the leading of human souls to what...
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
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
Will Rogers, Autobiography (1949) chapter 6
Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other.
Donald G. Smith
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
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 that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
Bertrand Russell
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
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esa
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
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.
E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Education a debt due from present to future generations.
George Peabody
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spence
A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.
Author Unknown
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.
Wilson Mizne
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
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.
Otto Kleppne
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark Twain
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
William Butler Yeats
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
Sir Walter Scott
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Maya Angelou
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A Bartlett Giamatti
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
Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.
Charles Monroe Schultz
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
Charlotte Bronte
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
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
George Santayana
Education is life itself.
John Dewey
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Sir Walter Scott
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
Emerson
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham
Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest.
Jimmy Swaggart
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 the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom