Education Quotes

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

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

Bill Cosby

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus T. Cicero

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Albert Einstein

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

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok

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

Robert G. Ingersoll

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Albert Einstein

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

G. K. Chesterton

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.

Jean Piaget

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

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

George Santayana

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

John Maynard Keynes
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