Education Quotes

Maya angelou - the quality of strength lined with tenderness is...
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
Henry Louis Mencken
The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.
Albert Einstein
Bertrand russell - men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made...
Sir thomas more, utopia, book 1 - for if you suffer your people to be ill -...
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
Stephen Vizinczey
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green
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
Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.
Bertrand Russell
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880
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
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.
Author Unknown
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
Abraham Lincoln
Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.
Charles Monroe Schultz
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
William Ralph Inge
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
Will Rogers, Autobiography (1949) chapter 6
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
G. K. Chesterton
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
Francis Keppel
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
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
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Wendell Phillips
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
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
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
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
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
Publilius Syrus
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
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
Elbert Hubbard
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
What is defeat Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody Allen
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 kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.
Robert Hutchins
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
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
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
George Bernard Shaw