Education Quotes
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
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 you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.Unknown
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.John Ruskin
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.Karl Kraus
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
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.Felix G. Rohatyn
Our task is to provide an education for the kind of kids we have... Not the kind of kids we used to have... Or want to have... Or the kids that exist in our dreams.Mary Kay Utech
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
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.Mark Twain
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.Francis Keppel
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
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.Emerson
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.Irwin Edman
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!Andy McIntyre
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
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.Will Durant
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
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 makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.Henry Peter Brougham
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".
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.G. M. Trevelyan
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.Sir Walter Scott
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.Thomas H. Huxley
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.Russell Green
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.Paul Karl Feyerabend
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.Bertrand Russell
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.Robert Hutchins
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.George Macaulay Trevelyan
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.Marian Wright Edelman
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 only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
Education is like a double - Edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.Wu Ting - Fang
