Quotes on education
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
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William R. Inge Quotes
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
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Unknown Author Quotes
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.
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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
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John W. Gardner Quotes
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
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Pete Seeger Quotes
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
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Bishop Mandell Creighton Quotes
We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.
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Robert Hutchins Quotes
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
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Joseph Addison Quotes
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.
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John W. Gardner Quotes
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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Unknown Author Quotes
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
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The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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William John Bennett Quotes
If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.
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Desmond Bagley Quotes
Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Sir Walter Scott Quotes
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Will Durant Quotes
Education should be exercise; it has become massage.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
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Robert Maynard Hutchins Quotes
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."
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Peter Brodie Quotes
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Aristotle Quotes
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.
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R. Baker Quotes
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Peter Drucker Quotes
The end of all education should surely be service to others.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
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If you haven't much education you must use your brain.
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Unknown Author Quotes
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
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Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
With just enough learning to misquote.
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George Gordon Quotes
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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.
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Will Rogers Quotes
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt Quotes
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
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Charles F. Kettering Quotes
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.
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Al McGuire Quotes
The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education.
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Joel Hildebrand Quotes
Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war on education. If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics.
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Leighann Lord Quotes
Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.
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Unknown Author Quotes
And if you're interested in the quality of education and you're paying attention to what you hear at Laclede, why don't you volunteer? Why don't you mentor a child how to read?
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George W. Bush Quotes
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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Edward Everett Quotes
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
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Erich Fromm Quotes
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
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Paul Karl Feyerabend Quotes
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
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.
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John W. Gardner Quotes
I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy on teaching children to read and having an education system that's responsive to the child and to the parents, as opposed to mired in a system that refuses to change, will make America what we want it to be - a more literate country and a hopefuller country.
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George W. Bush Quotes
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
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Robert Maynard Hutchins Quotes
Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.
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Mark Twain Quotes
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
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Unknown Author Quotes
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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Victor Hugo Quotes
The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.
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Lewis Carroll Quotes
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
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Unknown Author Quotes
It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.
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Author Unknown Quotes
They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.
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Richard Yates Quotes
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
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Unknown Author Quotes
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
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Heinrich Heine Quotes
Living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.
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The education of the will is the object of our existence.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
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William Ralph Inge Quotes
The amount we would invest in schools is far, far greater than that from the other side. Those are the basic differences.
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Al Gore Quotes
Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Will Durant Quotes
A Student is the most important person ever in this school... in person, on the telephone, or by mail.
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B. F. Skinner Quotes
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
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Unknown Author Quotes
What is defeat Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.
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Wendell Phillips Quotes
Nagging questions remain Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter.
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Henry Anatole Grunwald Quotes
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
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Albert Edward Wiggam Quotes
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
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Roger Lewin Quotes
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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.
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Anatole France Quotes
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
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Woody Allen Quotes
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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Aristotle Quotes
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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A.A. Milne Quotes
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Ezra Pound Quotes
If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.
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Rev. Ivan Stang Quotes
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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Mark Twain Quotes
The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.
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Simón Bolívar Quotes
Successful education is always a two-way street.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten
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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
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Unknown Author Quotes
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
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Woody Allen Quotes