Education Quotes

Education is...Hanging around until you've caught on.

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

Bill Beattie

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Allan Bloom

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Will Rogers

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats.

Martin H. Fischer

Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.

Jerome David Salinger

The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of recreation, but that they should know God and serve Him with earnestness and devotion.

Hermann Adler

Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it and there's no admission fee.

Banksy

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead

The rapid deterioration of education has been recognized as a national problem for the past several years. Consequently, American businesses must meet the immediate challenge of oorly-educated people in today's workforce by strengthening employee training programs.

Gregory Balestrero

The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.

Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

Lyman Frank Baum

Hermann Adler

American public universities have as their primary mission to provide excellent educational opportunities to the entire population and to serve the public good.

Robert Joseph Birgeneau

A convicted felon who had strong family ties, a stake in the community, and an education might get probation, while a man who had few family ties, little stake in the community, and little education might draw a ten-year sentence for the same crime.

Joseph Robinette

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

Edward Bellamy

Civilization or, to say the same thing, education is the taming or domestication of the souls raw passionsnot suppressing or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energybut forming and informing them as art.

Allan David Bloom

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

Catherine lise Blanchett

Men are likely to bring what are only their prejudices to the judgment of alien peoples. Avoiding that is one of the main purposes of education. But trying to prevent it by removing the authority of mens reason is to render ineffective the instrument that can correct their prejudices.

Allan David Bloom

There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.

Allan David Bloom

It's scary in this country, it's probably because of our bad educational system, but the percentage of people that believe in Creationalism is really scary for a country that's going to have to compete in the world where science and medicine require a better understanding

Michael Bloomberg

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