Education Quotes

John w. gardne - the ultimate goal of the educational system is to...
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!
Sonjay Anand
John ruskin - education is the leading of human souls to what...
Terry pratchett, hogfathe - an education was a bit like a communicable sexual...
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
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
Barnaby C. Keeney
Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.
S. Barry Lipkin
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore Roosevelt
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Lillian Smith
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Mizne
Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest.
Jimmy Swaggart
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Wendell Phillips
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.
John Dewey
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
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain
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
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
Josephine Tey
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Mark Twain
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes
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
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinne
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
Henry Louis Mencken
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
Xenophon
What does education often do It makes a straight - Cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Henry David Thoreau
Education is like a double - Edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.
Wu Ting - Fang
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 giving of love is an education in itself.
Roosevelt, Eleano
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
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Henry Steele Commage
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
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
Groucho Marx
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
Will Rogers, Autobiography (1949) chapter 6
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
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep - Herding.
Ezra Loomis Pound
Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
Benjamin Disraeli