Education Quotes

Claiborne pell - the strength of the united states is not the gold...
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
Charlotte Bronte
George macaulay trevelyan - education... has produced a vast population able...
Mary kay utech - our task is to provide an education for the kind...
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Curtis Bok
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
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
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
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
Erich Fromm
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
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
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody Allen
What is defeat Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
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
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
Stephen Vizinczey
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
Chuang - Tzu
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
Woody Allen
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
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
Benjamin Disraeli
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Baron Henry Peter Brougham
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
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
Aristotle
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
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
Successful education is always a two - way street.
Dirk Van Der Elst, Culture as Given, Culture as Choice
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 highest result of education is tolerance.
Hellen Kelle
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
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
There are two classes of poets - The poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
Paul Karl Feyerabend
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
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman Cousins
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
Burk Hudson
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
Irwin Edman
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
Henry Adams