Quotes
Quotes about Education
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan.
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. -Joseph Joubert.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. -Sir William Haley.
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn." Ropo Oguntimehin Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave. -T.H. White.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -Horace Mann.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -W. B. Yeats.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
