Education Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Education
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~ A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all ~

Aristotle

~ My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers ~

Woody Allen

~ I have never let my schooling interfere with my education ~

Mark Twain

~ I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~

Mark Twain

~ One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound. ~

Dennis Prager

~ College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. ~

Elbert Hubbard

~ Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. ~

Mark Twain

~ I have never let schooling interfere with my education. ~

Mark Twain

~ It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts…it is to teach them to think. ~

Robert M. Hutchins

~ If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around ~

Jim Rohn

~ Education is the transmission of civilization. ~

Will Durant

~ There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education. ~

Will Rogers

~ Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper. ~

Gerald Early

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

Robert M. Hutchins

~ Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. ~

Barbara Jordan

~ All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? ~

Nicholas Johnson

~ Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality ~

Thomas Sowell

~ Education is the movement from darkness to light. ~

Allan Bloom

~ The first duty of a government is to give education to the people ~

SimÛn BolÌvar

~ Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood ~

Janet Napolitano

~ Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ~

Nelson Mandela

~ Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses, subsidies, incentives, the progressive income tax, free education, the right to employment, the right to profit, the right to wages, the right to relief, the right to the tools of production, interest free credit, etc., etc. And it the aggregate of all these plans, in respect to what they have in common, legal plunder, that goes under the name of socialism ~

Frederic Bastiat

~ If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies ~

Milton Friedman

~ I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges for a middle degree of instruction, calculated for the common purposes of life and such as should be desirable for all who were in easy circumstances. And 3d. an ultimate grade for teaching the sciences generally and in their highest degree... The expenses of [the elementary] schools should be borne by the inhabitants of the county, every one in proportion to his general tax-rate. This would throw on wealth the education of the poor ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress... Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America ~

James Madison

~ What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ Education and communication are vitally important in order to impress each individual of his or her responsibility regarding the healthy future of the Earth. The best way for students to recognize that their action can make a difference is to have projects organized by the school or community on which the students can work. Once convinced that they can help, people tend to change both their attitude and their behavior. New attitudes towards the environment will be reflected in decisions at home and in corporate boardrooms around the world. ~

Vanessa Allison

~ The education of the will is the object of our existence ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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