Education Quotes
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
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
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.Karl Kraus
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898.Mark Twain
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
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.George Macaulay Trevelyan
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 a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.Will Durant
Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.Mark Twain
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.Albert Einstein
What does education often do It makes a straight - Cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.Henry David Thoreau
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.John Lubbock
Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest.Jimmy Swaggart
Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.Tom Clancy, "The Teeth Of The Tiger" - - Page 180
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.Horace Mann
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.Edward Everett
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.Plato
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Nancy Asto
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964
Education is life itself.John Dewey
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!Andy McIntyre
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
It is only the ignorant who despise education.Publilius Syrus
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
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.William Butler Yeats
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!Sonjay Anand
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.H. G. Wells
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.Albert Einstein
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.Chuang - Tzu
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.Mark Twain
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
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.Mark Twain
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
The giving of love is an education in itself.Roosevelt, Eleano
Education is a state - Controlled manufactory of echoes.Norman Douglas
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 that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell