Education Quotes

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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Sir Walter Scott
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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.
Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".
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 a debt due from present to future generations.
George Peabody
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
Grayson Kirk
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
R. D. Hitchcock
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody Allen
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
Alice James
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
The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.
Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
James R. Angell
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
Francis Keppel
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.
Evan Edga
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
G. K. Chesterton
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
Author Unknown
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Henry Steele Commage
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Mizne
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Wendell Phillips
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
Unknown
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
Woody Allen
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Robert E. Lee
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
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spence
An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.
Anna James
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self - Confidence.
Robert Frost
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
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