Education Quotes

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

  Aristotle

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

  Aristotle

• The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

  Aristotle

• An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

  Russell Baker

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

  Tallulah Bankhead

• Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

  Ambrose Bierce

• Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

  Ambrose Bierce

• Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

• Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

  George Washington Carver

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

• Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.

  John Dewey

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

  John Dewey

• I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

  Walt Disney

• When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

  Peter Drucker

• Education is the transmission of civilization.

  Ariel Durant

• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  Will Durant

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

  Edward Everett

• Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  Malcolm Forbes

• An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

  Anatole France

• Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

  Erich Fromm

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

  Robert Frost

• Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

  John W. Gardner

• If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

  Heinrich Heine

• The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

  Robert M. Hutchins

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

• I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

  Al McGuire

• I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

  Michel de Montaigne

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

  Ezra Pound

• The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

  Carl Rogers

• The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

  Will Rogers

• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  Gail Godwin

• No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

  Emma Goldman

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

  Sydney J. Harris

• He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

  Victor Hugo

• To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

  A. A. Milne

• The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

  Ernest Renan

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

  George Santayana

• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  G. M. Trevelyan

• In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

  Mark Twain

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

  Will Rogers

• Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

  B. F. Skinner

• To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

  Muriel Spark

• If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

  Cornelius Vanderbilt

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

  Oscar Wilde

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

  William Butler Yeats

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