Quotes
Quotes about Education
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.
Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education and education.
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
By education most have been misled.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Impartially their talents scan, Just education forms the man. - John Gay,
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
