Education Quotes
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
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
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.Sir Walter Scott
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
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.
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.Alice James
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.Norman Cousins
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.John F. Kennedy
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
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.Groucho Marx
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
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
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep - Herding.Ezra Loomis Pound
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.William Ralph Inge
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.Henry Adams
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
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.Wendell Phillips
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
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.Robert E. Lee
What does education often do It makes a straight - Cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.Henry David Thoreau
Formal education will make you a living self - Education will make you a fortune.Jim Rohn
I never let schooling interfere with my education.Mark Twain
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
It is only the ignorant who despise education.Publilius Syrus
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
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
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.Mark Twain
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.Emerson
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.Marian Wright Edelman
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.Robert Frost
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 a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.Edward Everett
