Education Quotes
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
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
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind - Manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea.Aldous Huxley
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.Tom Robbins
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.Felix G. Rohatyn
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.Benjamin Franklin
Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.Bertrand Russell
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.Emma Goldman
Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other.Donald G. Smith
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.Woody Allen
We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.Robert Hutchins
She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.John Mason Brown
Education is like a double - Edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.Wu Ting - Fang
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.Will Rogers, Autobiography (1949) chapter 6
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
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
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
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 task is to provide an education for the kind of kids we have... Not the kind of kids we used to have... Or want to have... Or the kids that exist in our dreams.Mary Kay Utech
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.Nelson Mandela
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.Plutarch, Morals
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Education is a state - Controlled manufactory of echoes.Norman Douglas
Education is the best provision for old age.Aristotle
Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.Calvin Coolidge
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.Paul Karl Feyerabend
The highest result of education is tolerance.Hellen Kelle
Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.Evan Edga
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.Mark Twain
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.Victor Hugo
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Lady Nancy Asto
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.James R. Angell
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well - Being of the community - These are the most vital things education must try to produce.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?Alan Perlis
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.A Bartlett Giamatti
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.Albert Einstein
