Education Quotes

Formal education will make you a living self - Education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
David p gardne - much that passes for education... is not...
The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.
Albert Einstein
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
James R. Angell
G. m. trevelyan - education has produced a vast population able to...
Robert frost - education is the ability to listen to almost...
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.
Wilson Mizne
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Henry C. Rogers
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
Irwin Edman
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
Charlotte Bronte
The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.
Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Tom Robbins
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
John F. Kennedy
Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.
Kahlil Gibran
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace Mann
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 most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
Paul E. Gray
Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.
Frank Zappa, Liner notes from the album, "Freak Out, " 1965
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Diogenes Laertius
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
Plato
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".
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
William James
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
John Lubbock
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
Alice James
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
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
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
Elbert Hubbard
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.
Robert Hutchins
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
Francis Keppel
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
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 than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
Bertrand Russell
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!
Andy McIntyre
Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle
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 produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
Claiborne Pell