Education Quotes

William butler yeats - education is not the filling of a pail, but the...
What is defeat Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.
Robert Hutchins
Russell green - the advantage of a classical education is that it...
Thomas h. huxley - perhaps the most valuable result of all education...
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 a debt due from present to future generations.
George Peabody
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody Allen
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John Ruskin
Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.
Kahlil Gibran
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
John W. Gardne
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Henry C. Rogers
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
James R. Angell
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
Chuang - Tzu
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
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark Twain
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
William James
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
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
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
James Truslow Adams
Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other.
Donald G. Smith
Education is a state - Controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman Douglas
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898.
Mark Twain
The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.
Otto Kleppne
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
Elbert Hubbard
The so - Called method of co - Education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training.
Pope Pius XI
Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
Benjamin Disraeli
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
George Bernard Shaw
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
Stephen Vizinczey
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
Xenophon
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Diogenes Laertius
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
George Santayana
The end of all education should surely be service to others.
Cesar E. Chavez