Education Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Education
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~ Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation. ~

Ernie Fletcher

~ Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ~

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

Oscar Wilde

~ Truly, the challenges we face are not Democratic challenges or Republican challenges. In fact, they are not political challenges at all; they are fiscal challenges, and educational challenges, and the challenges of figuring out how to take care of each other. ~

Christine Gregoire

~ English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgement, and education -- Sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. ~

E. B. White

~ American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm. ~

Stephen King

~ It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being. ~

Hans-Georg Gadamer

~ Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked. ~

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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

Aristotle

~ It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. ~

Bertrand Russell

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

Francis Keppel

~ Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them. ~

Henry Steele Commager

~ Education is...A form of self-delusion. ~

Elbert Hubbard

~ [Education] consists mainly in what we have unlearned. ~

Mark Twain

~ The only real education comes from what goes counter to you. ~

Andre Gide

~ The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ezra Pound

~ Education should be exercise; it has become massage. ~

Martin H. Fischer

~ My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. ~

Robert Maynard Hutchins

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

Erich Fromm

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

Oscar Wilde

~ Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ~

G.K. Chesterton

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

William Butler Yeats

~ The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ~

Bishop Mandell Creighton

~ I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. ~

Wilson Mizner

~ Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers ~

Jean Piaget

~ To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. ~

John Ruskin

~ Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous. ~

Oscar Wilde

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