Education Quotes

» To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

» I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

» The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

» Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

» Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

» 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.

» It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

» The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

» Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

» Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

» The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

» If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

» Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

» Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

» No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

» Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

» The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

» Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

» Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

» The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

» 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.

» Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

» If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

» 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.

» Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

» In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

» I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

» 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.

» Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

» When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

» Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

» It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

» The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

» An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

» The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

» I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

» He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

» I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

» Education is the transmission of civilization.

» Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

» Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

» There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

» The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

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