Quotes on education
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
Inge, William R.
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
Author, Unknown
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.
Author, Unknown
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.
Seeger, Pete
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Creighton, Bishop Mandell
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Addison, Joseph
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.
Gardner, John W.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Author, Unknown
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
Author, Unknown
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
Bennett, William John
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.
Bagley, Desmond
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.
Fischer, Martin H.
Education should be exercise; it has become massage.
Fischer, Martin H.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Hutchins, Robert Maynard
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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.
Baker, R.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Drucker, Peter
A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.
Fischer, Martin H.
The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Boorstin, Daniel J.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.
Einstein, Albert
With just enough learning to misquote.
Gordon, George
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.
Rogers, Will
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Kettering, Charles F.
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.
McGuire, Al
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.
Lord, Leighann
Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.
Author, Unknown
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Everett, Edward
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Einstein, Albert
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
Hutchins, Robert Maynard
Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.
Twain, Mark
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Hugo, Victor
The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.
Carroll, Lewis
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.
Author, Unknown
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.
Unknown, Author
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Author, Unknown
Living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.
Unknown, Author
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
Inge, William Ralph
The amount we would invest in schools is far, far greater than that from the other side. Those are the basic differences.
Gore, Al
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Durant, Will
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
Author, Unknown
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
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.
Wiggam, Albert Edward
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
Montaigne, Michel de
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.
France, Anatole
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Allen, Woody
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
Allen, Woody