Education Quotes
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.Tryon Edwards
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.Horace Mann
The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.Albert Einstein
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - - The power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.Johnson
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.Author Unknown
Education is the movement from darkness to light.Allan Bloom
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.Woody Allen
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.Abraham Lincoln
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
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
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.Plato, The Republic
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.Alexandre Dumas
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.Aleister Crowley
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 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
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
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.Erich Fromm
To repeat what others have said, requires education to challenge it, requires brains.Mary Pettibone Poole
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
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.John F. Kennedy
The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.Albert Einstein
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.Bishop Creighton
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.Wilson Mizne
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.Theodore Roosevelt
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.Groucho Marx
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.Maya Angelou
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.Bertrand Russell
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.Henry Peter Brougham
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.Edward Everett
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.Charlotte Bronte
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.Karl Kraus
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
The end of all education should surely be service to others.Cesar E. Chavez
