Education Quotes
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.John Lubbock
Education has for its object the formation of character.Herbert Spence
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.Frank Zappa
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.William Ralph Inge
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.Emerson
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
Successful education is always a two - way street.Dirk Van Der Elst, Culture as Given, Culture as Choice
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
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
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.Mark Twain
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
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.Laurens Van der Post
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.Bertrand Russell
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.Aristotle
Formal education will earn you a living, self - Education make you a fortune.Unknown
There are two classes of poets - The poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.Derek Curtis Bok
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.Wendell Phillips
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.Francis Keppel
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
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.Stephen Vizinczey
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 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
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.Evan Esa
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.Burk Hudson
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.Joseph Addison
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
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.Aristotle
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!Andy McIntyre
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Nancy Asto
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.Unknown
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.G. M. Trevelyan
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.Plato
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.Herbert Spence
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.B. F. Skinne
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.Baron Henry Peter Brougham
