Education Quotes
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
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Nancy Asto
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
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
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
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep - Herding.Ezra Loomis Pound
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.Elbert Hubbard
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
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
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.Joseph Addison
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!Andy McIntyre
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 great aim of education is not knowledge but action.Herbert Spence
What is defeat Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.Wendell Phillips
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
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
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.Robert Frost
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.John F. Kennedy
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.Karl Kraus
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.Will Rogers, Autobiography (1949) chapter 6
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.Wilson Mizne
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
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.Groucho Marx
Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.Kahlil Gibran
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
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.Albert Einstein
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.Aristotle
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.Robert M. Hutchins
Education has for its object the formation of character.Herbert Spence
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.Robert E. Lee
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 very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.Plutarch, Morals
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.Henry Adams
