Education Quotes
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.Herbert Spence
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
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
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.Grayson Kirk
The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.Albert Einstein
Education is not received. It is achieved.Author Unknown
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.Laurens Van der Post
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.Oscar Wilde
The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.Groucho Marx
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898.Mark Twain
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.Will Rogers, Autobiography (1949) chapter 6
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 an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.Oscar Wilde
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.Henry Peter Brougham
Education has for its object the formation of character.Herbert Spence
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
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
Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.Benjamin Disraeli
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
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.William John Bennett
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.Plato
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.Woody Allen
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.Vartan Gregorian
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.Robert Hutchins
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.George Santayana
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.Theodore Roosevelt
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!Andy McIntyre
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.Alan Simpson
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?Alan Perlis
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.Irwin Edman
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.Oscar Wilde
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.Wilson Mizne
Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.S. Barry Lipkin
Formal education will earn you a living, self - Education make you a fortune.Unknown
