Education Quotes

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
James Truslow Adams
Bertrand russell - men are born ignorant, not stupid. they are made...
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.
Wilson Mizne
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
George Santayana
Josephine tey - lack of education is an extraordinary handicap...
Oscar wilde - education is an admirable thing, but it is well...
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
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
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 is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - - The power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
Johnson
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spence
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
Xenophon
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Tryon Edwards
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
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark Twain
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
Erich Fromm
Formal education will make you a living self - Education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.
Bertrand Russell
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
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
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
Paul E. Gray
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
Successful education is always a two - way street.
Dirk Van Der Elst, Culture as Given, Culture as Choice
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
Burk Hudson
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Wendell Phillips
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham
Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.
Charles Monroe Schultz
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Roosevelt, Eleano