Education Quotes

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

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

George Savile

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.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

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

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

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time.

Education is...[A process] which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

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

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

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

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Ariel and Will Durant

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowingñthe rest is mere sheep-herding.

Ezra Loomis Pound

True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.

Felix E. Schelling

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

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

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

An educated man is one who can entertain a new idea, entertain another person and entertain himself.

Sydney Wood

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

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

Robert G. Ingersoll

Education is...One of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.

William Lowe Bryan

Education is...One of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Bertrand A. Russell

Education is...Man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.

Kenneth G. Johnson

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