Education Quotes

Barnaby c. keeney - the scramble to get into college is going to be...
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Robert M. Hutchins
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.
John Dewey
Wu ting - fang - education is like a double - edged sword. it may...
Elie wiesel, chicago sun - times, november 5, 2001 - education in the key to preventing the cycle of...
Successful education is always a two - way street.
Dirk Van Der Elst, Culture as Given, Culture as Choice
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
Unknown
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Baron Henry Peter Brougham
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well - Being of the community - These are the most vital things education must try to produce.
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
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
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Mizne
Our task is to provide an education for the kind of kids we have... Not the kind of kids we used to have... Or want to have... Or the kids that exist in our dreams.
Mary Kay Utech
We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.
Robert Hutchins
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
Karl Kraus
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
Xenophon
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Maya Angelou
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
Plato
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
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Robert Frost
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - - The power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
Johnson
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... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
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
Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.
Evan Edga
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898.
Mark Twain
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
Stephen Vizinczey
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato, The Republic
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
James R. Angell
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
Will Rogers, Autobiography (1949) chapter 6
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
Lady Nancy Asto
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Wendell Phillips
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
Elbert Hubbard
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