Education Quotes

Alice james - i wonder whether if i had an education i should...
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
Francis keppel - education is too important to be left solely to...
Arthur c. clarke, first on the moon, 1970 - the inspirational value of the space program is...
The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.
Author Unknown
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.
Frank Zappa
Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.
Evan Edga
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinne
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
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Robert M. Hutchins
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
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
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
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.
Vartan Gregorian
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
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Wendell Phillips
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
William Ralph Inge
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
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
A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.
Author Unknown
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, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.
Bertrand Russell
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A Bartlett Giamatti
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
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
Emerson
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Education is not received. It is achieved.
Author Unknown
Education is a state - Controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman Douglas
Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other.
Donald G. Smith
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
Burk Hudson
I never let schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
Josephine Tey
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
William James
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John Ruskin
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