Education Quotes

John f. kennedy - let us think of education as the means of...
Donald g. smith - common sense and education are highly compatible...
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
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.
Alexandre Dumas
The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.
Otto Kleppne
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Henry C. Rogers
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
William Ralph Inge
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
The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
Felix G. Rohatyn
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
Claiborne Pell
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esa
Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.
Frank Zappa, Liner notes from the album, "Freak Out, " 1965
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
Successful education is always a two - way street.
Dirk Van Der Elst, Culture as Given, Culture as Choice
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
Josephine Tey
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep - Herding.
Ezra Loomis Pound
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
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Diogenes Laertius
Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.
Kahlil Gibran
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
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
Henry Adams
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.
Frank Zappa
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Pete
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
Albert E. Wiggam
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Baron Henry Peter Brougham
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Curtis Bok
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880
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 what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinne
Education is not received. It is achieved.
Author Unknown
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato, The Republic
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
Stephen Vizinczey
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spence
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
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
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