Education Quotes

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
Author unknown - shortchange your education now and you may be...
Author unknown - education is not received. it is achieved....
I never let schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
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".
Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.
Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
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.
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
William Ralph Inge
What does education often do It makes a straight - Cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Henry David Thoreau
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 filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
William Butler Yeats
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman Cousins
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Robert E. Lee
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964
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
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.
Albert Einstein
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Pete
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
William John Bennett
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
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
Chuang - Tzu
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
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
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self - Confidence.
Robert Frost
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
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
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Hellen Kelle
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
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
George Santayana
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace Mann
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
James Truslow Adams
Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.
S. Barry Lipkin
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
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
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 that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
Bertrand Russell