Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

education

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

There is no education like adversity.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

Learn to think continentally.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Education is the mother of leadership.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

Man is what he reads.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

Education is not so important as people think.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

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.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

The doer alone learneth.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Your library is your paradise.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Freedom can occur only through education.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Nature has always had more force than education.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Responsibility educates.

Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.