Education Quotes
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.Bertrand Russell
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.Aristotle
To repeat what others have said, requires education to challenge it, requires brains.Mary Pettibone Poole
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.Michel de Montaigne
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
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.Plato, The Republic
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
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well - Being of the community - These are the most vital things education must try to produce.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.Woody Allen
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Education has for its object the formation of character.Herbert Spence
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.Unknown
The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.Albert Einstein
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
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.G. M. Trevelyan
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Lady Nancy Asto
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 what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.B. F. Skinne
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
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
We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.Robert Hutchins
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.Henry Peter Brougham
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - Unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.Karl Rove, March 19, 2001
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
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 than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
Education is a state - Controlled manufactory of echoes.Norman Douglas
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.Albert Einstein
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
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.John F. Kennedy
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
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self - Confidence.Robert Frost
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.Emerson
Formal education will make you a living self - Education will make you a fortune.Jim Rohn
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.William John Bennett
