Education Quotes

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
Francis keppel - education is too important to be left solely to...
The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.
Otto Kleppne
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein
B. f. skinne - education is what survives when what has been...
John dewey - it is our american habit if we find the...
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
Benjamin Disraeli
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
Claiborne Pell
The so - Called method of co - Education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training.
Pope Pius XI
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Hellen Kelle
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
Publilius Syrus
The end of all education should surely be service to others.
Cesar E. Chavez
The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Bishop Creighton
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
Nancy Asto
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
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
Irwin Edman
Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.
S. Barry Lipkin
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
Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.
Kahlil Gibran
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well - Being of the community - These are the most vital things education must try to produce.
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
John Lubbock
Formal education will make you a living self - Education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964
Education is not received. It is achieved.
Author Unknown
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Robert M. Hutchins
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Mark Twain
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spence
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Robert Frost
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".
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
John W. Gardne
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
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
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
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
Erich Fromm
Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other.
Donald G. Smith
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
Unknown
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
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.
Frank Zappa
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
Victor Hugo