Education Quotes

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
Paul E. Gray
John w. gardne - i am entirely certain that twenty years from now...
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
Thomas H. Huxley
Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.
Charles Monroe Schultz
Arthur c. clarke, first on the moon, 1970 - the inspirational value of the space program is...
Ezra loomis pound - real education must ultimately be limited to men...
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 makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham
The end of all education should surely be service to others.
Cesar E. Chavez
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
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
William James
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch, Morals
Education is a state - Controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman Douglas
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
Woody Allen
The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Bishop Creighton
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
Publilius Syrus
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - Unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
Karl Rove, March 19, 2001
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.
Wilson Mizne
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!
Andy McIntyre
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
Francis Keppel
Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
Henry Louis Mencken
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
Sir Walter Scott
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
Burk Hudson
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Mark Twain
Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Arnold Edinborough
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
Grayson Kirk
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880
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
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
Paul Karl Feyerabend
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.
Robert Hutchins
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
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 great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spence