Education Quotes
Much that passes for education... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.David P Gardne
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
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
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.Burk Hudson
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 life itself.John Dewey
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.Mark Twain
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
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.Henry Peter Brougham
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
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.Derek Curtis Bok
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
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.Frank Zappa
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.Theodore Roosevelt
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.H. G. Wells
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.Henry Peter Brougham
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.Emma Goldman
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 inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.Woody Allen
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.Unknown
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
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.Oscar Wilde
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.Aristotle
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.Felix G. Rohatyn
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.Anna James
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 is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.Oscar Wilde
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.Victor Hugo
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 goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest.Jimmy Swaggart
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.B. F. Skinne
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.Plutarch, Morals
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
