Education Quotes

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If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
Xenophon
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Robert Frost
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Sir Walter Scott
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 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
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman Cousins
Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.
S. Barry Lipkin
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 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
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Pete
Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.
Mark Twain
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
Irwin Edman
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
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
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
Josephine Tey
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
George Santayana
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
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!
Sonjay Anand
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
Elbert Hubbard
Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.
Charles Monroe Schultz
Education is not received. It is achieved.
Author Unknown
Education a debt due from present to future generations.
George Peabody
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Diogenes Laertius
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
Alice James
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
Publilius Syrus
America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esa
Formal education will make you a living self - Education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.
Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".