Education Quotes
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
Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.Frank Zappa, Liner notes from the album, "Freak Out, " 1965
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.Plato
America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.Alexandre Dumas
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
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.Alice James
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
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.John Ruskin
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.Clarence Thomas
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.Felix G. Rohatyn
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.Mark Twain
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.Xenophon
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.Robert Frost
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.Author Unknown
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.Diogenes Laertius
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
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.Laurence J. Pete
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.Alan Simpson
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 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
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
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.Henry Louis Mencken
Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other.Donald G. Smith
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
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 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
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.John W. Gardne
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.William John Bennett
Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.Calvin Coolidge
Education is not received. It is achieved.Author Unknown
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.Marian Wright Edelman
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.Emerson
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.Wilson Mizne
