Education Quotes
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898.Mark Twain
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
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
The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.Robert Hutchins
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.Horace Mann
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.Nelson Mandela
Education is not received. It is achieved.Author Unknown
Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other.Donald G. Smith
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.H. G. Wells
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.Mark Twain
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.William Butler Yeats
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.Francis Keppel
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 real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.Bishop Creighton
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.Barbara M. White
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.John F. Kennedy
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 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
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.Mark Twain
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
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.Bertrand Russell
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.Frank Zappa
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.Plato, The Republic
What does education often do It makes a straight - Cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.Henry David Thoreau
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.James R. Angell
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.Baron Henry Peter Brougham
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
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.Michel de Montaigne
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.Paul E. Gray
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
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.Sir Walter Scott
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.Aristotle
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.Derek Curtis Bok
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
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Lady Nancy Asto
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind - Manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea.Aldous Huxley
