Education Quotes
The end of all education should surely be service to others.Cesar E. Chavez
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.Erich Fromm
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.Aristotle
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.Henry Adams
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 is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964
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 is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.William Butler Yeats
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.John Lubbock
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.Mark Twain
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.George Santayana
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.Burk Hudson
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 older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind - Manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea.Aldous Huxley
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.Edward Everett
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
The so - Called method of co - Education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training.Pope Pius XI
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.Plato
Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.Benjamin Disraeli
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.Henry C. Rogers
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.Will Durant
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
Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.Evan Edga
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.Henry Peter Brougham
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.William Butler Yeats
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.Chuang - Tzu
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - - Rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.Bill Beattie
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.Maya Angelou
Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.Mark Twain
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.Aristotle
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.Aleister Crowley
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.Paul E. Gray
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.Unknown
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.Laurens Van der Post
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
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.Robert E. Lee