Education Quotes
Education has for its object the formation of character.Herbert Spence
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.Alexandre Dumas
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 quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.Maya Angelou
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.William Butler Yeats
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.G. M. Trevelyan
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
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.Lillian Smith
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
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
What does education often do It makes a straight - Cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.Henry David Thoreau
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
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.Groucho Marx
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
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.Nelson Mandela
What is defeat Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.Wendell Phillips
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Lady Nancy Asto
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 true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.Anna James
Formal education will earn you a living, self - Education make you a fortune.Unknown
We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.Robert Hutchins
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.Woody Allen
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.Mark Twain
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.William John Bennett
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 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
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.Woody Allen
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.Author Unknown
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.George Santayana
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
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.Alice James
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.Paul E. Gray
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
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!Sonjay Anand
