Education Quotes

Ralph waldo emerson - there are two classes of poets - the poets by...
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Cesar e. chavez - the end of all education should surely be service...
Karl kraus - education is what most receive, many pass on, and...
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
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
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
William John Bennett
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
G. K. Chesterton
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John Ruskin
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
John F. Kennedy
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.
Robert Hutchins
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
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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 makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Baron Henry Peter Brougham
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
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
Will Rogers, Autobiography (1949) chapter 6
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
Felix G. Rohatyn
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace Mann
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
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
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 too important to be left solely to the educators.
Francis Keppel
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Robert Frost
The so - Called method of co - Education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training.
Pope Pius XI
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
Paul Karl Feyerabend
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
Chuang - Tzu
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.
Frank Zappa
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Hellen Kelle
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
Publilius Syrus
Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.
S. Barry Lipkin
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
James R. Angell
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
George Bernard Shaw
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy