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Quotes about Education


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.

George Aristotle

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

George Haliburton

'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

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

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

Ezra Loomis Pound

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.

Henry David Thoreau

Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

John Maynard Keynes

No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.

Lee Rudolph

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 the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

Martin H. Fischer

Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.

Francis Keppel

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Will Durant

With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life. Barbara Hoberman Levine, Your Body Believes Every Word You Say Learning to love and accept ourselves is basic to human education. So is learning to language emotion in a positive way. Ultimately when we learn to truly love and accept ourselves, we'll be able to live well and love each other and every thing we encounter. -Doc Childre.

Doc Childre

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.

Wendell Phillips

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

Sam Houston

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