Education Quotes

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
Sir Walter Scott
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Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
Francis Keppel
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
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Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.
Evan Edga
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
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
William Ralph Inge
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
John W. Gardne
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
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
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Formal education will earn you a living, self - Education make you a fortune.
Unknown
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 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
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
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
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A Bartlett Giamatti
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark Twain
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
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato, The Republic
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Robert Frost
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 best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
Paul Karl Feyerabend
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.
Author Unknown
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato
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
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spence
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
Elbert Hubbard
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 makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham
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
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
Paul E. Gray
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
James Truslow Adams
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Mizne
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
Education is life itself.
John Dewey