Education Quotes
To repeat what others have said, requires education to challenge it, requires brains.Mary Pettibone Poole
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.Will Durant
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.Alexandre Dumas
Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.Evan Edga
I never let schooling interfere with my education.Mark Twain
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.Paul Karl Feyerabend
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.Albert E. Wiggam
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
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
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 only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.Albert Einstein
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.Oscar Wilde
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 a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.Lillian Smith
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.Alice James
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 a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.Robert Hutchins
For if you suffer your people to be ill - Educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1
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
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
Formal education will make you a living self - Education will make you a fortune.Jim Rohn
The end of all education should surely be service to others.Cesar E. Chavez
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.Norman Cousins
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
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
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.Sir Walter Scott
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.Author Unknown
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
Education is the movement from darkness to light.Allan Bloom
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 secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.William John Bennett
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
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.Chuang - Tzu
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.William Butler Yeats
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 is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self - Confidence.Robert Frost
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.Tom Robbins


