Education Quotes

The giving of love is an education in itself

Eleanor Roosevelt

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tyron Edwards

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

Edmund Burke

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Theodore Roosevelt

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness

Alfred North Whitehead

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice

Jacques Barzun

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

Robin Cook

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Ariel and Will Durant

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

Aristotle

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

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

John Dewey

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

G. M. Trevelyan