Education Quotes

Karl rove, march 19, 2001 - as people do better, they start voting like...
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
William Butler Yeats
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
Robert e. lee - the education of a man is never completed until...
Wendell phillips - what is defeat? nothing but education; nothing...
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato, The Republic
Education is not received. It is achieved.
Author Unknown
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
Stephen Vizinczey
Much that passes for education... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
David P Gardne
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
Groucho Marx
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Roosevelt, Eleano
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spence
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
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
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein
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
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
George Santayana
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
Karl Kraus
The end of all education should surely be service to others.
Cesar E. Chavez
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep - Herding.
Ezra Loomis Pound
An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody Allen
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 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
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark Twain
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace Mann
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
Francis Keppel
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore Roosevelt
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
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.
Frank Zappa
Education is like a double - Edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.
Wu Ting - Fang
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 main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman Cousins
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind - Manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea.
Aldous Huxley