Education Quotes
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 secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.William John Bennett
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.John Mason Brown
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.Maya Angelou
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.Henry Peter Brougham
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
Formal education will make you a living self - Education will make you a fortune.Jim Rohn
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.Marian Wright Edelman
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.John Ruskin
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.Irwin Edman
Education is the best provision for old age.Aristotle
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
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
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.Erich Fromm
America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
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
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.Tom Robbins
Education is the movement from darkness to light.Allan Bloom
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.Aristotle
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Lady Nancy Asto
Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.Calvin Coolidge
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 the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.Mark Twain
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.Paul E. Gray
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.John Maynard Keynes
The so - Called method of co - Education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training.Pope Pius XI
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.Clarence Thomas
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.John W. Gardne
She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.John Mason Brown
To repeat what others have said, requires education to challenge it, requires brains.Mary Pettibone Poole
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
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.Victor Hugo
Education is like a double - Edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.Wu Ting - Fang
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.Russell Green
