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education

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. 57 more thoughts from Will Rogers

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. 98 sayings from Mark Twain

Don't let schooling interfere with your education. 98 sayings from Mark Twain

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. 98 more sayings from Mark Twain

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. 25 views from Will Durant

Education is the transmission of civilization. 25 quotes from Will Durant

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. 25 other thoughts from C. S. Lewis

Freedom can occur only through education. 29 other quotes from Friedrich Schiller

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear. 10 sayings from Billy Sunday

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. 98 views from Mark Twain

I never let schooling interfere with my education. 98 more wisdom & wit from Mark Twain

I've never let my school interfere with my education. 98 quotes from Mark Twain

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. 7 wisdom & wit from Mary Astell

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. 98 more quotes from Mark Twain

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. 5 sayings from Abigail Adams

Nature has always had more force than education. 78 more quotes from Voltaire

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. 74 more thoughts from Winston Churchill

Responsibility educates. 14 sayings from Wendell Phillips

Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. 25 quotes from Will Durant

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. 98 more thoughts from Mark Twain

The key to education is the experience of beauty. 29 other views from Friedrich Schiller

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education. 57 other sayings from Will Rogers

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes. 9 other quotes from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better. 14 more quotes from Wendell Phillips

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. 14 sayings from Wendell Phillips

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education. 2 quotes from Joseph Lancaster

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. 6 quotes from Norman Douglas

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. 11 more quotes from Joseph Stalin

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. 3 sayings from Sidney Hook

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. 23 other thoughts from Walt Disney

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. 14 quotes from Heinrich Heine

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. 12 other views from Frank Zappa

Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. 30 quotes from Gustave Flaubert

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. 46 quotes from George Santayana

The mere imparting of information is not education. 6 other quotes from Carter G. Woodson

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus. 3 quotes from Minoru Yamasaki

There is no education like adversity. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. 75 more sayings from Benjamin Disraeli

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent. 17 wisdom & wit from Sammy Davis, Jr.

A college education shows a man how little other people know. 3 sayings from Thomas Chandler Haliburton

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. 10 other quotes from William Congreve

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. 6 more quotes from Evan Esar

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. 96 more views from Benjamin Franklin

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. 3 other quotes from Ernest Dimnet

Education is the cheap defense of nations. 37 wisdom & wit from Edmund Burke

Genius without education is like silver in the mine. 96 sayings from Benjamin Franklin

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. 30 thoughts from Charles Caleb Colton

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. 4 quotes from Alexandre Dumas

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. 7 sayings from Tallulah Bankhead

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse. 21 views from Abu Bakr

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal. 14 quotes from Loretta Young

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers. 4 quotes from Aldo Leopold

Learn to think continentally. 13 views from Alexander Hamilton

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions. 12 quotes from Daniel Webster

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. 16 other views from Isaac Asimov

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. 7 sayings from Tallulah Bankhead

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. 40 quotes from William James

The education of a man is never completed until he dies. 11 wisdom & wit from Robert E. Lee

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. 4 other sayings from Carl Rogers

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. 17 wisdom & wit from Plutarch

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. 5 other wisdom & wit from A. A. Milne

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience. 67 views from Francis Bacon

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. 73 other sayings from Victor Hugo

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. 3 more quotes from W. E. B. Du Bois

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. 45 other sayings from John Ruskin

Education is the mother of leadership. 2 more sayings from Wendell Willkie

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. 6 quotes from Barbara Jordan

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. 3 thoughts from G. M. Trevelyan

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. 73 quotes from Victor Hugo

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. 32 other views from Michel de Montaigne

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. 7 other quotes from Galileo Galilei

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated. 4 other views from Frederick William Robertson

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. 22 sayings from Henry Adams

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. 45 wisdom & wit from John Ruskin

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. 22 other wisdom & wit from Henry Adams

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. 9 quotes from William S. Burroughs

The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced. 45 more views from John Ruskin

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. 45 quotes from John Ruskin

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. 26 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. 2 other wisdom & wit from Ernest Renan

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. 45 thoughts from John Ruskin

Very likely education does not make very much difference. 31 more views from Gertrude Stein

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education. 2 other views from James Payn

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield. 6 more views from Earl Warren

Change is the end result of all true learning. 17 quotes from Leo Buscaglia

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education. 9 quotes from Lawrence Welk

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. 50 more quotes from Robert Frost

Education is all a matter of building bridges. 2 other thoughts from Ralph Ellison

Education is hanging around until you've caught on. 50 views from Robert Frost

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. 50 more thoughts from Robert Frost

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. 105 other quotes from Albert Einstein

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. 7 wisdom & wit from B. F. Skinner

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions. 5 quotes from William Godwin

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. 6 quotes from William Morris

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education. 5 quotes from William Jennings Bryan

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. 6 more quotes from Earl Warren

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. 105 other thoughts from Albert Einstein

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. 5 quotes from William Godwin

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. 105 views from Albert Einstein

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. 6 more quotes from Liberty Hyde Bailey

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. 6 more quotes from Earl Warren

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? 16 other quotes from Erich Fromm

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work. 2 sayings from Nat King Cole

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. 2 other quotes from A. Bartlett Giamatti

America is the best half-educated country in the world. 4 more thoughts from Nicholas M. Butler

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. 20 other sayings from Anatole France

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence. 10 quotes from Booker T. Washington

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. 8 quotes from Hosea Ballou

Education has for its object the formation of character. 20 wisdom & wit from Herbert Spencer

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. 2 sayings from Edward Everett

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. 8 thoughts from Karl Kraus

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. 8 quotes from Karl Kraus

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. 6 wisdom & wit from Harvey S. Firestone

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. 6 thoughts from Mary Wollstonecraft

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. 41 quotes from Marcus Aurelius

Nine tenths of education is encouragement. 20 other views from Anatole France

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. 8 quotes from Karl Kraus

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. 20 thoughts from Herbert Spencer

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. 70 more quotes from Thomas Jefferson

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. 5 more thoughts from Agnes Repplier

'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. 43 more quotes from Alexander Pope

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. 11 wisdom & wit from Horace Mann

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education. 22 quotes from James Dyson

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. 35 views from Rabindranath Tagore

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. 11 other quotes from Horace Mann

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. 43 sayings from Alexander Pope

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. 24 quotes from James A. Baldwin

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. 11 quotes from Horace Mann

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. 52 more wisdom & wit from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. 21 wisdom & wit from Malcolm X

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. 52 other quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. 10 other views from Wilson Mizner

I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree. 22 quotes from James Dyson

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. 2 views from Cornelius Vanderbilt

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. 8 quotes from Joseph Brodsky

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. 46 quotes from John F. Kennedy

Man is what he reads. 8 quotes from Joseph Brodsky

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. 45 thoughts from Bertrand Russell

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. 52 more quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. 46 quotes from John F. Kennedy

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. 43 quotes from Alexander Pope

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. 46 wisdom & wit from John F. Kennedy

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. 35 views from Rabindranath Tagore

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. 52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. 26 views from Harry S. Truman

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. 45 other quotes from Bertrand Russell

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. 24 quotes from Joseph Addison

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. 52 thoughts from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world. 21 other wisdom & wit from Malcolm X

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education. 21 sayings from Malcolm X

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. 3 more quotes from Nancy Astor

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. 10 wisdom & wit from Emma Goldman

Education is not so important as people think. 10 views from Elizabeth Bowen

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. 28 other thoughts from William Butler Yeats

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life. 5 quotes from Brigham Young

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. 10 quotes from John Maynard Keynes

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. 47 thoughts from George Orwell

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman. 18 views from Pearl S. Buck

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values. 10 quotes from William Ralph Inge

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. 58 other thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher

The highest result of education is tolerance. 31 quotes from Helen Keller

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. 15 sayings from Norman Cousins

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. 115 other quotes from George Bernard Shaw

All real education is the architecture of the soul. 2 more quotes from William Bennett

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. 19 wisdom & wit from Marshall McLuhan

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. 19 thoughts from E. B. White

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees. 3 other wisdom & wit from Munshi Premchand

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. 2 quotes from George Savile

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. 15 quotes from Walter Scott

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. 11 sayings from Charles Kettering

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. 15 views from John Locke

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity. 24 other quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson

Education is the art of making man ethical. 9 quotes from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. 12 wisdom & wit from Malcolm Forbes

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war. 5 thoughts from Maria Montessori

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology. 4 quotes from Edward Thorndike

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal. 22 other quotes from Samuel Richardson

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. 12 other sayings from Malcolm Forbes

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. 26 other quotes from Jean de la Bruyere

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head. 2 views from Agnes de Mille

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. 21 other quotes from Laurence J. Peter

Education is the movement from darkness to light. 2 thoughts from Allan Bloom

History is a race between education and catastrophe. 19 other thoughts from H. G. Wells

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. 19 more sayings from H. G. Wells

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it. 10 other quotes from Taylor Caldwell

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. 13 more quotes from Sydney J. Harris

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. 13 more quotes from Sydney J. Harris

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. 36 sayings from Theodore Roosevelt

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. 36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought. 28 other quotes from Napoleon Hill

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. 100 other quotes from Oscar Wilde

Education is not preparation for life education is life itself. 9 wisdom & wit from John Dewey

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. 7 quotes from Jean Giraudoux

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. 9 other sayings from John Dewey

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. 103 wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche

Men of polite learning and a liberal education. 7 views from Matthew Henry

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. 3 wisdom & wit from Dylan Thomas

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. 100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. 8 quotes from Ezra Pound

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. 9 sayings from John Dewey

The doer alone learneth. 103 more views from Friedrich Nietzsche

The giving of love is an education in itself. 30 thoughts from Eleanor Roosevelt

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes. 15 quotes from Desiderius Erasmus

Your library is your paradise. 15 quotes from Desiderius Erasmus