Quotes
Quotes about Education
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living. The other should teach us how to live.
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
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.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
Medical education is not completed at the medical school, it is only begun.
The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.
In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their workaday lives but to gain an education, to see the world, to learn table manners and interior decoration, how to dress, kiss, to laugh and cry, how to react to tragedy and happiness, how to be brave, evil and good.
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds. - Means and Ends of Education.
I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings? - Craftmanship in Teaching.
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what has worked with what sounded good. In area after area- crime, education, housing, race relations- the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
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.
