Education Quotes
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
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.Plutarch, Morals
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.Plato
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.Albert Einstein
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.William Butler Yeats
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.Robert Frost
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.Unknown
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.Derek Curtis Bok
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self - Confidence.Robert Frost
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
What does education often do It makes a straight - Cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.Henry David Thoreau
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
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
The so - Called method of co - Education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training.Pope Pius XI
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.Mark Twain
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Lady Nancy Asto
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!Sonjay Anand
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
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
Education a debt due from present to future generations.George Peabody
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.Herbert Spence
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - Men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.Jean Piaget
What is defeat Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.Wendell Phillips
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.Theodore Roosevelt
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.Benjamin Franklin
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
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
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.William Butler Yeats
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.William John Bennett
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.Emma Goldman
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
Successful education is always a two - way street.Dirk Van Der Elst, Culture as Given, Culture as Choice
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.Chuang - Tzu
