Education Quotes

Ralph waldo emerson - there are two classes of poets - the poets by...
Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.
Tom Clancy, "The Teeth Of The Tiger" - - Page 180
Tom robbins - if little else, the brain is an educational toy....
John lubbock - a wise system of education will at last teach us...
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!
Sonjay Anand
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
Paul Karl Feyerabend
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
G. K. Chesterton
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
Josephine Tey
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
Barnaby C. Keeney
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
Karl Kraus
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
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esa
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
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
Author Unknown
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
Irwin Edman
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!
Andy McIntyre
The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Bishop Creighton
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
The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - Men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.
Jean Piaget
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Roosevelt, Eleano
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spence
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
William John Bennett
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".
Education is like a double - Edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.
Wu Ting - Fang
To repeat what others have said, requires education to challenge it, requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole
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
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
Paul E. Gray
Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system.
Frank Zappa, Liner notes from the album, "Freak Out, " 1965
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esa
We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.
Robert Hutchins
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
Plato
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Mizne
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - Unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
Karl Rove, March 19, 2001