Education Quotes
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
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.Henry C. Rogers
Education has for its object the formation of character.Herbert Spence
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
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
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.Mark Twain
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.Derek Curtis Bok
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.John F. Kennedy
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep - Herding.Ezra Loomis Pound
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.Wilson Mizne
The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.Bishop Creighton
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 a state - Controlled manufactory of echoes.Norman Douglas
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 aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.William Ralph Inge
Education is life itself.John Dewey
Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest.Jimmy Swaggart
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
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
Successful education is always a two - way street.Dirk Van Der Elst, Culture as Given, Culture as Choice
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
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.John Lubbock
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.John W. Gardne
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
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
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.John Maynard Keynes
The end of all education should surely be service to others.Cesar E. Chavez
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898.Mark Twain
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
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.Nelson Mandela
Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.Frank Zappa, Liner notes from the album, "Freak Out, " 1965
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.Bertrand Russell
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.Marian Wright Edelman
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.Author Unknown
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.William Butler Yeats
