Education Quotes

Education is like a double - Edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.
Wu Ting - Fang
Mark twain - i never let schooling interfere with my education....
We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.
Robert Hutchins
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Curtis Bok
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
Michel de Montaigne
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
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 the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Plato, the republic - the direction in which education starts a man...
Karl kraus - education is what most receive, many pass on, and...
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 produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
Stephen Vizinczey
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
Josephine Tey
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham
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 a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Lillian Smith
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
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 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
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.
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
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
G. K. Chesterton
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 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 has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spence
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: 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 not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Robert M. Hutchins
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
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
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Education is a state - Controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman Douglas
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
Barnaby C. Keeney
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.
Frank Zappa
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