Education Quotes
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.Alexandre Dumas
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.Albert Einstein
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.Sir Walter Scott
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.Alice James
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.Maya Angelou
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.John Lubbock
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.Chuang - Tzu
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
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.Author Unknown
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 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
Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.Frank Zappa, Liner notes from the album, "Freak Out, " 1965
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
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.Nelson Mandela
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.Henry Adams
Education a debt due from present to future generations.George Peabody
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.G. M. Trevelyan
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
To repeat what others have said, requires education to challenge it, requires brains.Mary Pettibone Poole
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.Felix G. Rohatyn
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.Plato
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.Plato, The Republic
The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.Plato
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.Stephen Vizinczey
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
Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.Evan Edga
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep - Herding.Ezra Loomis Pound
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.Henry Steele Commage
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.Aristotle
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
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
We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.Robert Hutchins
