Education Quotes
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964
Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other.Donald G. Smith
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.Joseph Addison
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
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 education of the will is the object of our existence.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is a state - Controlled manufactory of echoes.Norman Douglas
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.Henry C. Rogers
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
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898.Mark Twain
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.Irwin Edman
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.John Dewey
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.Elbert Hubbard
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
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.Benjamin Franklin
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.Diogenes Laertius
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.Derek Curtis Bok
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
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
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
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.Plato, The Republic
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
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.Wilson Mizne
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
Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.Charles Monroe Schultz
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Lady Nancy Asto
Education must provide the opportunities for self - Fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.Noam Chomsky
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.Charlotte Bronte
The giving of love is an education in itself.Roosevelt, Eleano
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.Plato
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
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - - The power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.Johnson
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 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
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.James Truslow Adams
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.H. G. Wells
