Education Quotes
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: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.Mark Twain
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.Unknown
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 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
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
Much that passes for education... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.David P Gardne
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 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
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.Irwin Edman
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
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
Education is like a double - Edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.Wu Ting - Fang
A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.Author Unknown
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.Francis Keppel
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.Russell Green
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.Lillian Smith
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 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
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.John W. Gardne
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
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
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.Groucho Marx
It is only the ignorant who despise education.Publilius Syrus
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self - Confidence.Robert Frost
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.Robert Hutchins
The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.Albert Einstein
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.Robert M. Hutchins
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
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.Derek Curtis Bok
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Nancy Asto
The end of all education should surely be service to others.Cesar E. Chavez
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.Mark Twain
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!Andy McIntyre
