Education Quotes

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

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

Wilson Mizner

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

Mark Twain

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

Robert Frost

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

Sydney J. Harris

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

Sydney J. Harris

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

Edward Everett

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

Bertrand A. Russell

Education is...The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent.

Josiah Stamp

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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

Henry Brooks Adams

Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

John Ruskin

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.

Douglas Yates

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

Bishop Mandell Creighton
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