Education Quotes
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
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
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
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.Tom Robbins
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
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
Education is life itself.John Dewey
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 foundation of every state is the education of its youth.Diogenes Laertius
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.Russell Green
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
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
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.Theodore Roosevelt
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.Erich Fromm
Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.Frank Zappa, Liner notes from the album, "Freak Out, " 1965
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
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
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
For if you suffer your people to be ill - Educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1
Education a debt due from present to future generations.George Peabody
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.John Mason Brown
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.B. F. Skinne
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.Aleister Crowley
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.John Lubbock
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.Edward Everett
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.Bertrand Russell
What is defeat Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.Wendell Phillips
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!Sonjay Anand
Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.Bertrand Russell
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
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
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.Victor Hugo
To repeat what others have said, requires education to challenge it, requires brains.Mary Pettibone Poole
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.Russell Green
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.Author Unknown
