Education Quotes
We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.Robert Hutchins
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.Abraham Lincoln
What does education often do It makes a straight - Cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.Henry David Thoreau
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
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.Plato
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.Benjamin Franklin
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
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
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.Diogenes Laertius
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.Anna James
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
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.Aristotle
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.John Maynard Keynes
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
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Education has for its object the formation of character.Herbert Spence
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.Josephine Tey
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
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.Sir Walter Scott
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.Wilson Mizne
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 should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Nancy Asto
Education is life itself.John Dewey
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.Will Rogers, Autobiography (1949) chapter 6
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.Henry Peter Brougham
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.Derek Curtis Bok
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.Mark Twain
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.Mark Twain
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.Russell Green
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self - Confidence.Robert Frost
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 not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.William Butler Yeats
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
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.Paul Karl Feyerabend
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.Chuang - Tzu
It is only the ignorant who despise education.Publilius Syrus
