Education Quotes

The so - Called method of co - Education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training.
Pope Pius XI
Mark twain - soap and education are not as sudden as a...
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett
Education is life itself.
John Dewey
Victor hugo - common sense is in spite of, not the result of,...
Josephine tey - lack of education is an extraordinary handicap...
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
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
Burk Hudson
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
Felix G. Rohatyn
Education must provide the opportunities for self - Fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Noam Chomsky
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinne
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
John Lubbock
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
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Wendell Phillips
Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Arnold Edinborough
Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!
Sonjay Anand
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
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
William Ralph Inge
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
Erich Fromm
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
Stephen Vizinczey
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Hellen Kelle
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
A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.
Author Unknown
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
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Henry Steele Commage
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
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".
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Roosevelt, Eleano
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
Plato
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