Education Quotes

George bernard shaw - what we call education and culture is for the...
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".
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
Andy mcintyre - if you think education is expensive, try...
Mark twain - education: that which reveals to the wise, and...
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
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.
Alexandre Dumas
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.
Robert Hutchins
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esa
For if you suffer your people to be ill - Educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1
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
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Hellen Kelle
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
Aristotle
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato, The Republic
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
Xenophon
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
Will Rogers, Autobiography (1949) chapter 6
Education is like a double - Edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.
Wu Ting - Fang
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
Elbert Hubbard
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Roosevelt, Eleano
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
Erich Fromm
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
Henry Adams
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spence
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.
Mark Twain
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett
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.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
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
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?
Alan Perlis
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
Michel de Montaigne
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
George Santayana
Education is life itself.
John Dewey
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
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison
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
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
Felix G. Rohatyn
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle