Quotes
Quotes about Education
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 do know and what you don't.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -Malcolm Forbes.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. -Unknown.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.
Education is when you read the find print; experience is what you get when you don't.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.
