education
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
2 more views from A. Bartlett Giamatti
America is the best half-educated country in the world.
4 views from Nicholas M. Butler
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
20 other thoughts from Anatole France
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
10 more quotes from Booker T. Washington
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
8 sayings from Hosea Ballou
Education has for its object the formation of character.
20 sayings from Herbert Spencer
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
2 more sayings from Edward Everett
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
8 quotes from Karl Kraus
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
8 other wisdom & wit from Karl Kraus
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
6 other quotes from Harvey S. Firestone
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
6 more sayings from Mary Wollstonecraft
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
41 other thoughts from Marcus Aurelius
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
20 sayings from Anatole France
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
8 quotes from Karl Kraus
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
20 wisdom & wit from Herbert Spencer
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
70 wisdom & wit from Thomas Jefferson
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
5 quotes from Agnes Repplier
'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
43 more quotes from Alexander Pope
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
11 more thoughts from Horace Mann
Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.
22 more quotes from James Dyson
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
35 other quotes from Rabindranath Tagore
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
11 quotes from Horace Mann
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
43 sayings from Alexander Pope
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
24 thoughts from James A. Baldwin
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
11 other wisdom & wit from Horace Mann
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
52 views from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
21 more wisdom & wit from Malcolm X
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
10 more views from Wilson Mizner
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.
22 other quotes from James Dyson
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
2 more quotes from Cornelius Vanderbilt
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
8 wisdom & wit from Joseph Brodsky
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
46 more sayings from John F. Kennedy
Man is what he reads.
8 sayings from Joseph Brodsky
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
45 more quotes from Bertrand Russell
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
52 more quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
46 sayings from John F. Kennedy
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
43 other sayings from Alexander Pope
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
46 other views from John F. Kennedy
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
35 more quotes from Rabindranath Tagore
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
52 more wisdom & wit from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
26 other quotes from Harry S. Truman
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
45 wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
24 more sayings from Joseph Addison
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
52 other sayings from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
21 other wisdom & wit from Malcolm X
You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
21 views from Malcolm X
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
3 sayings from Nancy Astor
All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
10 sayings from Emma Goldman
Education is not so important as people think.
10 quotes from Elizabeth Bowen
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
28 quotes from William Butler Yeats
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
5 other quotes from Brigham Young
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
10 more thoughts from John Maynard Keynes
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
47 quotes from George Orwell
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.
18 quotes from Pearl S. Buck
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
10 wisdom & wit from William Ralph Inge
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
58 more quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
The highest result of education is tolerance.
31 other quotes from Helen Keller
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
15 sayings from Norman Cousins
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
115 more sayings from George Bernard Shaw
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
2 more quotes from William Bennett
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
19 sayings from Marshall McLuhan
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
19 other quotes from E. B. White
To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
3 thoughts from Munshi Premchand
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
2 more wisdom & wit from George Savile
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
15 more quotes from Walter Scott
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
11 quotes from Charles Kettering
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
15 quotes from John Locke
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
24 more quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson
Education is the art of making man ethical.
9 wisdom & wit from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
12 more quotes from Malcolm Forbes
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
5 quotes from Maria Montessori
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
4 views from Edward Thorndike
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
22 quotes from Samuel Richardson
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
12 quotes from Malcolm Forbes
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
26 thoughts from Jean de la Bruyere
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
2 views from Agnes de Mille
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
21 views from Laurence J. Peter
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
2 quotes from Allan Bloom
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
19 sayings from H. G. Wells
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
19 quotes from H. G. Wells
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
10 thoughts from Taylor Caldwell
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
13 quotes from Sydney J. Harris
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
13 other wisdom & wit from Sydney J. Harris
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.
36 more quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
36 more sayings from Theodore Roosevelt
Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
28 views from Napoleon Hill
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
100 more wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde
Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.
9 other sayings from John Dewey
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
7 more quotes from Jean Giraudoux
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
9 other quotes from John Dewey
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
7 wisdom & wit from Matthew Henry
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
3 more quotes from Dylan Thomas
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
100 other sayings from Mahatma Gandhi
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
8 other wisdom & wit from Ezra Pound
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
9 more wisdom & wit from John Dewey
The doer alone learneth.
103 more quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
The giving of love is an education in itself.
30 more quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
15 more views from Desiderius Erasmus
Your library is your paradise.
15 other views from Desiderius Erasmus
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
57 wisdom & wit from Will Rogers
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
98 wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
98 other quotes from Mark Twain
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
25 quotes from Will Durant
Education is the transmission of civilization.
25 more quotes from Will Durant
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
25 thoughts from C. S. Lewis
Freedom can occur only through education.
29 sayings from Friedrich Schiller
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
10 thoughts from Billy Sunday
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
98 other views from Mark Twain
I never let schooling interfere with my education.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
I've never let my school interfere with my education.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
7 other quotes from Mary Astell
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
98 other thoughts from Mark Twain
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
5 other wisdom & wit from Abigail Adams
Nature has always had more force than education.
78 other wisdom & wit from Voltaire
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
74 quotes from Winston Churchill
Responsibility educates.
14 quotes from Wendell Phillips
Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
25 other views from Will Durant
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
98 thoughts from Mark Twain
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
29 sayings from Friedrich Schiller
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
57 wisdom & wit from Will Rogers
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
9 other wisdom & wit from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
14 quotes from Wendell Phillips
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
14 more quotes from Wendell Phillips
The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
2 more wisdom & wit from Joseph Lancaster
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
6 wisdom & wit from Norman Douglas
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
11 quotes from Joseph Stalin
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
3 more sayings from Sidney Hook
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
23 wisdom & wit from Walt Disney
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
14 quotes from Heinrich Heine
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
12 quotes from Frank Zappa
Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
30 quotes from Gustave Flaubert
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
46 sayings from George Santayana
The mere imparting of information is not education.
6 wisdom & wit from Carter G. Woodson
The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.
3 more views from Minoru Yamasaki
There is no education like adversity.
75 more sayings from Benjamin Disraeli
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
17 wisdom & wit from Sammy Davis, Jr.
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
3 wisdom & wit from Thomas Chandler Haliburton
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
10 more thoughts from William Congreve
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
6 other wisdom & wit from Evan Esar
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
3 more quotes from Ernest Dimnet
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
75 views from Aristotle
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
13 views from Chanakya
Education is the best provision for old age.
75 other thoughts from Aristotle
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
37 quotes from Edmund Burke
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
96 other views from Benjamin Franklin
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
30 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
4 sayings from Alexandre Dumas
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
7 more thoughts from Tallulah Bankhead
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.
21 views from Abu Bakr
In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.
14 quotes from Loretta Young
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
4 wisdom & wit from Aldo Leopold
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
75 other wisdom & wit from Aristotle
Learn to think continentally.
13 other sayings from Alexander Hamilton
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
12 thoughts from Daniel Webster
Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
6 wisdom & wit from Zhuangzi
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
16 more views from Isaac Asimov
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
7 sayings from Tallulah Bankhead
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
40 sayings from William James
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
11 other wisdom & wit from Robert E. Lee
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
4 quotes from Carl Rogers
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
75 quotes from Aristotle
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
17 views from Plutarch
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
5 more sayings from A. A. Milne
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.
67 wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
73 other quotes from Victor Hugo
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
3 quotes from W. E. B. Du Bois
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
45 thoughts from John Ruskin
Education is the mother of leadership.
2 other quotes from Wendell Willkie
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
6 quotes from Barbara Jordan
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
3 more thoughts from G. M. Trevelyan
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
73 more quotes from Victor Hugo
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
7 other quotes from Galileo Galilei
Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
4 other quotes from Frederick William Robertson
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
22 thoughts from Henry Adams
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
45 thoughts from John Ruskin
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
22 quotes from Henry Adams
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
9 more quotes from William S. Burroughs
The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.
45 sayings from John Ruskin
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
45 quotes from John Ruskin
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
26 other quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
2 more quotes from Ernest Renan
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
45 quotes from John Ruskin
Very likely education does not make very much difference.
31 other quotes from Gertrude Stein
In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
2 other wisdom & wit from James Payn
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
6 more quotes from Earl Warren
Change is the end result of all true learning.
17 more quotes from Leo Buscaglia
Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
9 quotes from Lawrence Welk
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
50 views from Robert Frost
Education is all a matter of building bridges.
2 other quotes from Ralph Ellison
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
50 thoughts from Robert Frost
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
50 more wisdom & wit from Robert Frost
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
105 more views from Albert Einstein
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
7 other sayings from B. F. Skinner
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
5 more wisdom & wit from William Godwin
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
6 sayings from William Morris
If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
5 more quotes from William Jennings Bryan
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.
6 more quotes from Earl Warren
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
105 other thoughts from Albert Einstein
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
5 other wisdom & wit from William Godwin
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
105 views from Albert Einstein
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
6 quotes from Liberty Hyde Bailey
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
6 thoughts from Earl Warren
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
16 quotes from Erich Fromm
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
2 quotes from Nat King Cole