Education Quotes & Sayings

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~ The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. ~

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

G. M. Trevelyan

~ A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad. ~

Theodore Roosevelt

~ Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. ~

John Ruskin

~ The result of the educative process is capacity for further education. ~

John Dewey

~ Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. ~

Walter Bagehot

~ In England Ö education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. ~

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

~ Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. ~

Henry Brooks Adams

~ Education: Being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it. ~

William Feather

~ Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire. ~

William B. Yeats

~ The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action. ~

Herbert Spencer

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

G.M. Trevelyan

~ Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~

Will Durant

~ Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs. ~

Martin H. Fischer

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

Malcolm S. Forbes

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Aristotle

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

Robert Frost

~ The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils. ~

Martin H. Fischer

~ Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~

John Dewey

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

John Maynard Keynes

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

George Santayana

~ Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility that society owes to itself. ~

Robin Cook

~ Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. ~

Marcus Tullius Cicero

~ By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name. ~

Plato

~ Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework ~

Bill Cosby

~ 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. ~

Abraham Flexner

~ Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. ~

Albert Edward Wiggam

~ Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ~

Pete Seeger

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