Education Quotes
Education is not received. It is achieved.Author Unknown
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.Robert M. Hutchins
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.John F. Kennedy
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self - Confidence.Robert Frost
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.George Macaulay Trevelyan
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.Victor Hugo
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
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.Xenophon
To repeat what others have said, requires education to challenge it, requires brains.Mary Pettibone Poole
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
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.Albert Einstein
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.Alan Simpson
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.Will Durant
Formal education will make you a living self - Education will make you a fortune.Jim Rohn
America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
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
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
Education a debt due from present to future generations.George Peabody
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".
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.John W. Gardne
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.Tom Robbins
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.Author Unknown
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.Russell Green
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 real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.Bishop Creighton
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
Formal education will earn you a living, self - Education make you a fortune.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
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
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.Vartan Gregorian
The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.Albert Einstein
What does education often do It makes a straight - Cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.Henry David Thoreau
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.Albert E. Wiggam
Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest.Jimmy Swaggart
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
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.B. F. Skinne
