Education Quotes
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898.Mark Twain
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.Mark Twain
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.Mark Twain
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
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
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 makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.Baron Henry Peter Brougham
Education a debt due from present to future generations.George Peabody
An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe
Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.Evan Edga
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.Diogenes Laertius
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.George Macaulay Trevelyan
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.Horace Mann
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man.Lyndon B. Johnson
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.Stephen Vizinczey
Education is the best provision for old age.Aristotle
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.Robert E. Lee
The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Successful education is always a two - way street.Dirk Van Der Elst, Culture as Given, Culture as Choice
Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.S. Barry Lipkin
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.Oscar Wilde
Much that passes for education... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.David P Gardne
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.Henry Peter Brougham
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 basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.Barbara M. White
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.Karl Kraus
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.Tryon Edwards
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
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
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.Woody Allen
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.Felix G. Rohatyn
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.Edward Everett
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
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.Clarence Thomas
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
