Education Quotes

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

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

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

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

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

Robin Cook

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

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Edward Everett

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

[Education] consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

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

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

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

Education should be exercise; it has become massage.

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?

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

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

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

AbbÈ Dimnet

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

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

Bishop Mandell Creighton

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

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