Education's purpose is to replace
an empty mind with an open one.
?Malcolm S. Forbes
Education is a weapon, whose effect
depends on who holds it in
his hands and at whom it is aimed.
?Joseph Stalin
The roots of education are
bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
?Aristotle
Educate people without religion and
you make them but clever devils.
?Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
It is very nearly impossible... to
become an educated person in a
country so distrustful of
the independent mind.
?James Baldwin
Knowledge which is acquired under
compulsion has no hold on the mind.
Therefore do not use compulsion,
but let early education be
rather a sort of amusement;
this will better enable you to find
out the natural bent of the child.
?Plato
Education is that which discloses to the
wise and disguises from the foolish
their lack of understanding.
?Ambrose Bierce
It is possible to store the mind with a million
facts and still be entirely uneducated.
?Alec Bourne
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.
?Paul Chambers
Upon the education of the people of this
country the fate of this country depends.
?Benjamin Disraeli
Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow
is willing to pay for and not get.
?Leonard L. Levinson
It should be possible to explain the
laws of physics to a barmaid.
?Albert Einstein
Those who trust us educate us.
?George Eliot
The secret in education lies in
respecting the student.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is a better safeguard of
liberty than a standing army.
?Edward Everett
Education is the process of driving a
set of prejudices down your throat.
?Martin H. Fischer
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
?Anatole France
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.
?David P. Gardner
They teach in academies far too many
things, and far too much that is useless.
?Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The most important outcome of education
is to help students become
independent of formal education.
?Paul E. Gray
When you educate a man you educate
an individual; when you educate
a woman you educate a whole family.
?Robert M. MacIver
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.
?Sir William Haley
Education: The inculcation of the
incomprehensible into the
indifferent by the incompetent.
?John Maynard Keynes
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.
?John A. Hannah
Education is the ability
to meet life's situations.
?Dr. John G. Hibben
People should be free to find or make
for themselves the kinds of educational experience
they want their children to have.
?John Holt
Education is too important to
be left solely to the educators.
?Francis Keppel
Education is a crutch with
which the foolish attack
the wise to prove that
they are not idiots.
?Karl Kraus
We are dealing with the best-educated
generation in history. But they've got a
brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
?Timothy Leary
The task of the modern educator
is not to cut down jungles,
but to irrigate deserts.
?C. S. Lewis
A wise system of education will at
last teach us how little man yet knows,
how much he has still to learn.
?Sir John Lubbock
In large states public education will
always be mediocre, for the same
reason that in large kitchens the
cooking is usually bad.
?Friedrich Nietzsche
The best education in the world is
that got by struggling to get a living.
?Wendell Phillips
The only person who is educated is the one
who has learned how to learn and change.
?Carl Rogers
Formal education will make you a living;
self-education will make you a fortune.
?Jim Rohn
To educate a man in mind and not in morals
is to educate a menace to society.
?Theodore Roosevelt
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.
?Jean Jacques Rousseau
No one wants a good education.
Everyone wants a good degree.
?Lee Rudolph
The first condition of education is being
able to put someone to
wholesome and meaningful work.
?John Ruskin
Most people are willing to pay more
to be amused than to be educated.
?Robert C. Savage
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.
?Anne Sullivan
Education is what you get from reading the fine print.
Experience is what you get from not reading it.
?Source Unknown
Education is an admirable thing,
but it is well to remember from
time to time that nothing that is
worth knowing can be taught.
?Oscar Wilde
Try not to have a good time ...
This is supposed to be educational.
?Charles Schulz
Those who educate children well are more
to be honored than parents, for these only
gave life, those the art of living well.
?Aristotle
Common sense is in spite of,
not as the result of education.
?Victor Hugo
There is nothing as stupid as an educated
man if you get him off
the thing he was educated in.
?Will Rogers
If little else, the brain
is an educational toy.
?Tom Robbins
We need excellence in public education
and if the teachers can't do it,
we'll send in a couple of policemen.
?Frank Rizzo
We think there is a parallel between federal
involvement in education and the
decline in profit over recent years.
?Ronald Reagan
Education is a progressive discovery
of our own ignorance.
?Will Durant
It is a good thing for an uneducated
man to read books of quotations.
?Winston Churchill
It is possible to store the mind with
a million facts and
still be entirely uneducated.
?Alec Bourne
Why should society feel responsible
only for the education of
children, and not for the education
of all adults of every age?
?Erich Fromm
To be able to be caught up into the world
of thought that is being educated.
?Edith Hamilton
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
The primary purpose of a liberal education
is to make one's mind a pleasant place
in which to spend one's leisure.
?Sydney J. Harris
The object of education is to prepare
the young to educate
themselves throughout their lives.
?Robert Maynard Hutchins
The great end of education is to discipline
rather than to furnish the mind;
to train it to the use of its own powers, rather
than fill it with the accumulation of others.
?Tryon Edwards
The education of a man is never
completed until he dies.
?Robert E. Lee
The best educated human being
is the one who understands most about
the life in which he is placed.
?Helen Keller
The aim of education is the knowledge
not of fact, but of values.
?Dean William R. Inge
The advantage of a classical education
is that it enables you to despise the wealth
which it prevents you from achieving.
?Russell Green
Nothing in education is so astonishing
as the amount of ignorance it
accumulates in the form of inert facts.
?Henry Adams
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds
of the young and inflame their intellects.
?Robert Maynard Hutchins
It sometimes seems as though we
were trying to combine the ideal
of no schools at all with the
democratic ideal of schools for
everybody by having schools
without education.
?Robert Maynard Hutchins
If you think education is
expensive, try ignorance.
?Derek Bok
Education is helping the child
realize his potentialities.
?Erich Fromm
Education is the instruction of the
intellect in the laws of Nature.
?Thomas Henry Huxley
Education is the transmission of civilization.
?Ariel and Will Durant
Education is what survives when what
has been learnt has been forgotten.
?B. F. Skinner
Education: A debt due from present
to future generations.
?George Peabody
All who have meditated on the art
of governing mankind have been
convinced that the fate of empires
depends on the education of youth.
?Aristotle
A college education shows a man
how little other people know.
?Haliburton
A child miseducated is a child lost.
?John F. Kennedy
'Tis education forms the common mind.
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
?Alexander Pope
All real education is the
architecture of the soul.
?William J. Bennett
The best education consists in
immunizing people against
systematic attempts at education.
?Paul Karl Feyerabend
Education is not the filling of a
pail, but the lighting of a fire.
?William Butler Yeats
Genius without education
is like silver in the mine.
?Ben Franklin
Colleges are places where pebbles are
polished and diamonds are dimmed.
?R.S. Ingersoll
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
?Galileo
Whoever ceases to be a student
has never been a student.
?George Iles
Education...has produced a vast
population able to read but unable to
distinguish what is worth reading.
?George Macaulay Trevelyan
Education, n. That which discloses to the
wise and disguises from the
foolish their lack of understanding.
?Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
A mind once stretched by a new idea
never regains its original dimension.
?Oliver Wendell Holmes
Real education must ultimately be limited
to men who insist on knowing.
The rest is mere sheep herding.
?Ezra Loomis Pound
A school should not be a preparation
for life. A school should be life.
?Elbert Green Hubbard
The intelligent man finds almost everything
ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.
?Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What does education often do?
It makes a straight cut ditch
of a free meandering brook.
?Henry David Thoreau
