Quote: Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. Author: Laurence J. Peter
Quote: The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. Author: Wendell Phillips 1811-1884, American Reformer, Orator
Quote: 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. Author: Jean Piaget 1896-1980, Swiss Experimenters and Theorists
Quote: Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher
Quote: Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind. Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher
Quote: The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery. Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher
Quote: Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator
Quote: Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better. Author: Sylvia Porter
Quote: Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding. Author: Ezra Pound 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic
Quote: An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body. Author: Edgar Quinet 1803-1875, French Poet, Historian, Politician
Quote: Formal education is but an incident in the lifetime of an individual. Most of us who have given the subject any study have come to realize that education is a continuous process ending only when ambition comes to a halt. Author: R. I. Rees
Quote: Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people? Author: Beah Richards
Quote: The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. Author: Carl Rogers 1902-1987, American Psychotherapist
Quote: Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. Author: Jim Rohn American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher
Quote: 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. Author: Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA
Quote: To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. Author: Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA
Quote: The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight. Author: Harold Rosenberg 1906-1978, American Art Critic, Author
Quote: We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist
Quote: No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree. Author: Lee Rudolph
Quote: Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. Author: George Santayana 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet
Quote: Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. Author: Robert C. Savage
Quote: True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world. Author: Felix E. Schelling 1858-1945, American Educator
Quote: Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. Author: Friedrich Schlegel 1772-1829, German Philosopher, Critic, Writer
Quote: The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Quote: 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. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. Author: B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner 1904-1990, American Psychologist
Quote: Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college. Author: Lillian Smith 1897-1966, American Author
Quote: All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind. Author: Logan Pearsall Smith 1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist
Quote: An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all Author: Socrates BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens
Quote: Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men. Author: Socrates BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens
Quote: To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion. Author: Muriel Spark 1918-, British Novelist
Quote: Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. Author: Joseph Stalin 1879-1953, Georgian-born Soviet Leader
Quote: The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. Author: John Sterling American Sports Announcer
Quote: A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear. Author: James B. Stockdale
Quote: Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness. Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896, American Novelist, Antislavery Campaigner
Quote: I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Author: Anne Sullivan 1866-1936, American Educator of the Deaf, Blind
Quote: It is only the ignorant who despise education. Author: Publilius Syrus 1st Century BC, Roman Writer
Quote: Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. Author: Thomas Szasz 1920-, American Psychiatrist
Quote: How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. Author: Alexis De Tocqueville 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher
Quote: I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. Author: Jean Giraudoux 1882-1944, French Diplomat, Author
Quote: They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other. Author: Emma Goldman 1869-1940, American Anarchist
Quote: We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. Author: Remy De Gourmont 1858-1915, French Novelist, Philosopher, Poet, Playwright
Quote: America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering. Author: Billy Graham 1918-, American Evangelist
Quote: The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education. Author: Paul E. Gray
Quote: We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty. Author: Angelina Grimke 1805-1879, American Abolitionist, Feminist
Quote: Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. Author: Sir William Haley
Quote: Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone. Author: John A. Hannah
Quote: Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: Education is the art of making man ethical. Author: Georg Hegel 1770-1831, German Philosopher
Quote: Much learning does not teach understanding. Author: Heraclitus BC 535-475, Greek Philosopher
Quote: Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with book learning, theoretically legitimizes the traditional trash and trains the children to know without understanding and to accept denominations for definitions. Astray in his conceptions, entangled in words, man loses the flair for truth, the taste for nature. What a powerful intellect must you possess, to be suspicious of this moral carbon dioxide and with your head swimming already, to hurl yourself out of it into the fresh air, with which, into the bargain, everyone round is trying to scare you! Author: Alexander Herzen 1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker
Quote: Education is the ability to meet life's situations. Author: Dr. John G. Hibben
Quote: Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 1841-1935, American Judge
Quote: People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have. Author: John Holt 1908-1967, Australian Politician, Prime Minister
Quote: The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. Author: Sam Houston 1793-1863, American Soldier, Statesman
Quote: You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think. Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
Quote: He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Author: Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. Author: Robert M. Hutchins 1899-1977, American University President
Quote: The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. Author: Robert M. Hutchins 1899-1977, American University President
Quote: The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. Author: Robert M. Hutchins 1899-1977, American University President
Quote: Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. Author: Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author
Quote: The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. Author: Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author
Quote: It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body. Author: Thomas H. Huxley 1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator
Quote: Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the things you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a person's training begins, it is probably the last lesson a person learns thoroughly. Author: Thomas H. Huxley 1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator
Quote: The public school has become the established church of secular society. Author: Ivan Illich 1926-, Austrian-born American Theologian, Author
Quote: The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work. Author: Michael Jackson 1958-, American Musician, Songwriter
Quote: I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am. Author: Alice James 1848-1892, American Diarist, Sister of Henry, William James
Quote: Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. Author: Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826, Third President of the USA
Quote: I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond. Author: Franz Kafka 1883-1924, German Novelist, Short-Story Writer
Quote: 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. Author: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA
Quote: Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. Author: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA
Quote: Education is too important to be left solely to the educators. Author: Francis Keppel
Quote: The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present. Author: Ellen Key 1849-1926, Swedish Author, Feminist
Quote: Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs. Author: Florence King 1936-, American Author, Critic
Quote: Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life. Author: Karl Kraus 1874-1936, Austrian Satirist
Quote: Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. Author: Karl Kraus 1874-1936, Austrian Satirist
Quote: The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. Author: Jean De La Bruyere 1645-1696, French Writer
Quote: We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Author: Timothy Leary 1921-1996, American Actor
Quote: The education of a man is never complete until he dies. Author: Robert E. Lee 1807-1870, American Confederate Army Commander
Quote: The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. Author: C. S. Lewis 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist
Quote: Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity. Author: Andrew Linzey
Quote: No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. Author: Walter Lippmann 1889-1974, American Journalist
Quote: The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. Author: John Locke 1632-1704, British Philosopher
Quote: A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. Author: Sir John Lubbock 1834-1913, British Statesman, Banker, Naturalist
Quote: I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. Author: Martin Luther 1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation
Quote: Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. Author: James Madison 1751-1836, American Statesman, President
Quote: Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world. Author: Malcolm X 1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist
Quote: A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. Author: Horace Mann 1796-1859, American Educator
Quote: Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. Author: Horace Mann 1796-1859, American Educator
Quote: Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery. Author: Horace Mann 1796-1859, American Educator
Quote: The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir. Author: John Mason
Quote: The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet. Author: Phyllis Mcginley 1905-1978, American Poet, Author
Quote: The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing. Author: Marshall Mcluhan 1911-1980, Canadian Communications Theorist
Quote: It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties. Author: Alice Duer Miller
Quote: People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed. Author: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer
Quote: In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk -- they are all part of the curriculum. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. Author: Maria Montessori 1870-1952, Italian Educator
Quote: If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? Author: Maria Montessori 1870-1952, Italian Educator
Quote: The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read. Author: Hannah More 1745-1833, British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist
Quote: Education costs money, but then so does ignorance. Author: Sir Claus Moser 1922-, German-born British Academic, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford
Quote: In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future. Author: Camille Paglia 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator
Quote: Education has opened many, many doors. However, there are still innumerable doors shut tight -- unopened yet. These are the doors of the future. Perhaps one of my children will open one of these doors -- I shall help give him the key. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Education is not received. It is achieved. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: I just graduated and already I'm way behind. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If nobody dropped out of eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates? Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The world is run by C students. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you. Author: John Updike 1932-, American Novelist, Critic
Quote: If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head. Author: Claire Weeks
Quote: The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. Author: Simone Weil 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic
Quote: There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. Author: Walt Whitman 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God... and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven. Author: Orson F. Whitney
Quote: Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: Education, we see, is not merely gaining knowledge or skills helpful toward productive work, though certainly that is a part of it. Rather it is a replenishment and an expansion of the natural thirst of the mind and soul. Learning is a gradual process of growth, each step building upon the other. It is a process whereby the learner organizes and integrates not only facts but attitudes and values. The Lord has told us that we must open our minds and our hearts to learn. There is a Chinese proverb: Wisdom is as the moon rises, perceptible not in progress but in result. As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked. Author: Barbara W. Winder
Quote: Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life. Author: Brigham Young 1801-1877, American Mormon Leader
Quote: Our attitude towards ourselves should be ''to be satiable in learning'' and towards others ''to be tireless in teaching.'' Author: Mao Zedong 1893-1976, Founder of Chinese Communist State
Quote: They know enough who know how to learn. Author: Henry Brooks Adams 1838-1918, American Historian
Quote: There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Author: John Adams 1735-1826, Second President of the USA
Quote: What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul. Author: Joseph Addison 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman
Quote: Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors. Author: Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888, American Author
Quote: Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations. Author: Maya Angelou 1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer
Quote: Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
Quote: Education is the best provision for old age. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
Quote: The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
Quote: The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
Quote: Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
Quote: Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils. Author: Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley 1769-1852, British Statesman, Military Leader
Quote: A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. Author: James Baldwin 1924-1987, American Author
Quote: It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. Author: James Baldwin 1924-1987, American Author
Quote: The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. Author: James Baldwin 1924-1987, American Author
Quote: Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty--how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools Author: William John Bennett 1943-, American Federal Official
Quote: Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it. [Proverbs 22:6] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature. Author: Edward Blishen 1920-, British Actor
Quote: Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. Author: Allan Bloom 1930-1992, American Educator, Author
Quote: The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration. Author: Allan Bloom 1930-1992, American Educator, Author
Quote: In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of religion, sex, and money. Without a basic knowledge of these three primary facts in a normal human being's life --subjects which stir the emotions, create events and opportunities, and if they do not wholly decide must greatly influence an individual's personality --no human being's education can have a safe foundation. Author: Phyllis Bottome 1884-1963, American Writer
Quote: It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. Author: Alec Bourne
Quote: Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. Author: Omar Nelson Bradley 1893-1981, American General
Quote: There's a new tribunal now higher than God's --The educated man s! Author: Robert Browning 1812-1889, British Poet
Quote: We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before. Author: Dr. Jerome Brunner
Quote: Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children. Author: Patrick Buchanan 1938-, American Statesman
Quote: The mark of a true MBA is that he is often wrong but seldom in doubt. Author: Robert Buzzell American Professor, Harvard Business School
Quote: Mentoring is all about people -- it's about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it becomes increasingly in vogue it is becoming too formulated -- concerned with performance metrics, critical success factors, investment and spending. It'll be a disaster. Author: Rene Carayol American Business Executive
Quote: We must do better or perish as the nation we know today. Author: Lauro Cavazos
Quote: Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap. Author: Paul Chambers 1904-1981, American Business Executive
Quote: Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists. Author: Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort 1741-1794, French Writer, Journalist, Playwright
Quote: It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training. Author: Raymond Chandler 1888-1959, American Author
Quote: He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man. Author: William Ellery Channing 1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author
Quote: Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author
Quote: Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education. Author: Chuang Tzu c 369 BC-286 BC, Chinese Philosopher
Quote: Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively. Author: R.D. Clyde
Quote: It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense. Author: William Cobbett 1762-1835, British Journalist, Reformer
Quote: Better build schoolrooms for ''the boy,'' than cells and gibbets for ''the man.'' Author: Eliza Cook 1818-1889, British Poet
Quote: Education is the fire-proofer of emotions. Author: Frank Crane American Actor
Quote: The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. Author: Mandell Creighton 1843-1901, British Historian, Bishop
Quote: Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. Author: John Dewey 1859-1952, American Philosopher, Educator
Quote: The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking. Author: Philip K. Dick 1928-1982, American Science Fiction Writer
Quote: On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends. Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: There is no education like adversity. Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing, but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. Author: J. Frank Doble 1888-1964, American Author
Quote: Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930, British Author, ''Sherlock Holmes''
Quote: Education can no longer be the sole property of the state. Author: Peter F. Drucker 1909-, American Management Consultant, Author
Quote: When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. Author: Peter F. Drucker 1909-, American Management Consultant, Author
Quote: It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it. Author: Finley Peter Dunne 1867-1936, American Journalist, Humorist
Quote: Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. Author: William J. Durant 1885-1981, American Historian, Essayist
Quote: Education ought everywhere to be religious education. Parents are bound to employ no instructors who will instruct their children religiously. To commit children to the care of irreligious persons is to commit lambs to the superintendency of wolves. Author: Timothy Dwight
Quote: According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: Those who trust us educate us. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: The secret in education lies in respecting the student. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Only the educated are free. Author: Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
Quote: Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Author: Edward Everett 1794-1865, American Statesman, Scholar
Quote: The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education Author: Paul Karl Feyerabend
Quote: Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. Author: Henry Fielding 1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist
Quote: Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat. Author: Martin H. Fischer
Quote: The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one Author: Malcolm S. Forbes 1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman
Quote: Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. Author: Edward M. Forster 1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist
Quote: An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Author: Anatole France 1844-1924, French Writer
Quote: Nine tenths of education is encouragement. Author: Anatole France 1844-1924, French Writer
Quote: If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: Education is hanging around until you've caught on. Author: Robert Frost 1875-1963, American Poet
Quote: Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Author: Robert Frost 1875-1963, American Poet
Quote: Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process. Author: R. Buckminster Fuller 1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher
Quote: What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities. Author: R. Buckminster Fuller 1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher
Quote: We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least. Author: David P. Gardner
Quote: America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. Author: John W. Gardner 1912-, American Educator, Social Activist
Quote: 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. Author: John W. Gardner 1912-, American Educator, Social Activist
Quote: Most owners of small businesses openly state that they believe in the value of skills and operational training. However, they also admit that they themselves undertake very little training, or offer only limited training to their employees, because of time restraints. Author: Moshe Gerstenhaber American Business Executive
Quote: We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--Responsibility. Author: Herbert Hoover
Quote: A university must be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Quote: No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. Author: G. K. Chesterton
Quote: The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. Author: Bill Beattie
Quote: The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Author: Sydney J. Harris
Quote: Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. Author: B. F. Skinner
Quote: An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. Author: Unknown
Quote: If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Author: Derek Bok
Quote: It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
Quote: Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. Author: G. M. Trevelyan
Quote: To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. Author: A. A. Milne
Quote: Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. Author: Abraham Flexner
Quote: Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Author: Edward Everett
Quote: Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Author: Ezra Pound
Quote: The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Author: Robert Maynard Hutchins
Quote: He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Author: Victor Hugo
Quote: Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Author: Will Durant
Quote: Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? Author: Erich Fromm
Quote: Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. Author: William Haley
Quote: Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Author: Malcom S. Forbes
Quote: An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. Author: R. Baker
Quote: What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. Author: Henry David Thoreau
Quote: Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. Author: Oscar Wilde
Quote: I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. Author: Tallulah Bankhead
Quote: To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. Author: Muriel Spark
Quote: If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. Author: Cornelius Vanderbilt
Quote: Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. Author: Aristotle
Quote: Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Author: G. K. Chesterton
Quote: Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Author: Robert Frost
Quote: Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. Author: Abbe Dimnet
Quote: Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. Author: Ambrose Bierce
Quote: It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Author: Aristotle
Quote: When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. Author: Peter Drucker
Quote: If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous. Author: Desmond Bagley
Quote: Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. Author: John W. Gardner
Quote: There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. Author: Will Rogers
Quote: Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. Author: William Butler Yeats
Quote: Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. Author: Ambrose Bierce
Quote: There is only one Education, and it has only one goal: the freedom of the mind. Anything that needs an adjective, be it civics education, or socialist education, or Christian education, or whatever-you-like education, is not education, and it has some different goal. The very existence of modified educations is testimony to the fact that their proponents cannot bring about what they want in a mind that is free. An education that cannot do its work in a free mind, and so must teach by homily and precept in the service of these feelings and attitudes and beliefs rather than those, is pure and unmistakable tyranny. Author: Richard Mitchell
Quote: Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. Author: Roger Lewin
Quote: They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing. Author: Richard Yates
Quote: I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. Author: Al McGuire
Quote: A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. Author: Brander Matthews
Quote: If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. Author: Heinrich Heine
Quote: One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day. Author: Peter Brodie
Quote: The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life. Author: Ernest Renan
Quote: Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Author: John Dewey
Quote: I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. Author: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Quote: Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. Author: Pete Seeger
Quote: We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: 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. Author: Albert Edward Wiggam
Quote: The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. Author: George Santayan
Quote: The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. Author: Will Rogers
Quote: Education is the transmission of civilization. Author: Ariel and Will Durant
Quote: The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. Author: Bishop Mandell Creighton
Quote: If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and nutty. You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality. Author: Rev. Ivan Stang
Quote: There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom. Author: Francis Bacon
Quote: Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
Quote: Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. Author: G. K. Chesterton
Quote: By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man. Author: John Dryden
Quote: Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. Author: Euripides
Quote: Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. Author: William Hazlitt
Quote: The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together. Author: Eric Hoffer
Quote: Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. Author: Carl Jung
Quote: An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. Author: Charles Kettering
Quote: Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought. Author: Ludwig von Mises
Quote: Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at once the ability AND the inclination of the mind to find knowledge, to pursue understanding, and out of knowledge and understanding, not out of received attitudes and values or emotional responses, however worthy, to make judgments. Author: Richard Mitchell
Quote: In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. Author: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Quote: 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? Author: Alan Perlis
Quote: The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort. Author: Ayn Rand
Quote: Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. Author: Bertrand Russell
Quote: Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. Author: Joseph Stalin
Quote: I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Author: Mark Twain
Quote: Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. Author: Mark Twain
Quote: Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way. Author: Samuel Butler
Quote: All of life is a constant education. Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
Quote: The highest result of education is tolerance. Author: Helen Keller
Quote: When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built. Author: Mark Twain
Quote: A child miseducated is a child lost. Author: John F. Kennedy
Quote: Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity. Author: Deborah Meier
Quote: Education is the vaccine for violence. Author: Edward James Olmos
Quote: An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Author: Benjamin Franklin
Quote: A teacher affects eternity. Author: Henry Adams
Quote: Life without an education is fruitless, life with an education gives you the opportunity to take a bite from the apple. Author: Lanita Mayes student