Education Quotes

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

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 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

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

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

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

Erich Fromm

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

Baron Henry Peter Brougham

There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.

Will Rogers, Autobiography (1949) chapter 6

Education is life itself.

John Dewey

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

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Plutarch, Morals

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Nancy Asto

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

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

Education a debt due from present to future generations.

George Peabody

The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

James R. Angell

Successful education is always a two - way street.

Dirk Van Der Elst, Culture as Given, Culture as Choice

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 crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.

Albert Einstein

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

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

Thomas H. Huxley

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - Men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

Jean Piaget

If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!

Andy McIntyre

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spence

What is defeat Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.

Wendell Phillips

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

Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.

Francis Keppel

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Tom Robbins

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.

Frank Zappa

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Henry Peter Brougham

Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.

S. Barry Lipkin

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

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