Quotes
Quotes about Education
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
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 know and what you don't.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and the fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
