Education Quotes
There are two classes of poets - The poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Nancy Asto
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
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.Alexandre Dumas
Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.Arnold Edinborough
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
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.Groucho Marx
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
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
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.John F. Kennedy
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - Unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.Karl Rove, March 19, 2001
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.Derek Curtis Bok
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
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Lady Nancy Asto
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
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
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
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.Josephine Tey
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.Paul Karl Feyerabend
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
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.Edward Everett
Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.Tom Clancy, "The Teeth Of The Tiger" - - Page 180
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
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
The so - Called method of co - Education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training.Pope Pius XI
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.William John Bennett
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
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.William Ralph Inge
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
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!Sonjay Anand
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.Will Durant
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.Elbert Hubbard
The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.Unknown
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.Oscar Wilde
