Education Quotes

Paul e. gray - the most important outcome of education is to...
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
Alexandre dumas - how is it that little children are so intelligent...
Author unknown - shortchange your education now and you may be...
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
James Truslow Adams
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
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Sir Walter Scott
Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.
Kahlil Gibran
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
George Santayana
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
William John Bennett
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
Chuang - Tzu
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John Ruskin
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
Felix G. Rohatyn
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
Plato
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spence
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
George Bernard Shaw
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
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
Groucho Marx
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - - The power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
Johnson
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Formal education will earn you a living, self - Education make you a fortune.
Unknown
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Roosevelt, Eleano
Education is like a double - Edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.
Wu Ting - Fang
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
Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.
S. Barry Lipkin
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
Xenophon
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
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esa
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
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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
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 a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Pete