Famous Education Quotes - Famous Quotes about Education
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
- Cicero
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America is the best half-educated country in the world.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
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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
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.
- E. M. Forster
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Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
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Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty per cent of useful work of the world.
- Toni Morrison
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College isn't the place to go for ideas.
- Helen Keller
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Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
- Walt Disney
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
- Barbara Jordan
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Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
- Arthur Wellesley
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Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
- David Suzuki
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
- Karl Kraus
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Education is a danger. . . . At best an education which produces useful coolies for us is admissible. Every educated person is a future enemy.
- Martin Bormann
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant
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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
- Norman Douglas
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Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
- Joseph Stalin
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Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
- Aristotle
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
- Socrates
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Education is the mother of leadership.
- Wendell Willkie
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B. F. Skinner
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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
- Pete Seeger
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Education made us what we are.
- Claude Adrien Helvetius
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Education will not (take the place of persistance); the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
- Calvin Coolidge
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- C. S. Lewis
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Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men—the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
- Horace Mann
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
- John Maynard Keynes
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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
- Maria Montessori
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He did not suffer from a poor education; he suffered from the belief that he had a poor education. (on Lyndon Johnson)
- George Ball
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I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
- Woody Allen
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I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... the study of milkmen.
- Steven Wright
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I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
- Angelina Grimke
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
- Susan B. Anthony
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
- Maria Montessori
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If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy, you educate one, but if you educate a girl, you educate a generation.
- Brigham Young
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If this boy passes the examinations he will be admitted; and if the white students choose to withdraw, all the income of the college will be devoted to his education. (on admitting the first black student to Harvard)
- Edward Everett
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If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
- Alfred Kazin
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Derek Bok
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It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was defective and I feel the inconvenience, if not the misfortune of not receiving a classical education. Knowledge is the food of genius, and my son, let no opportunity escape you to treasure up knowledge.
- Sam Houston
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
- Agnes Repplier
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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
- Aristotle
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
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My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.
- Robert Millikan
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
- Maria Montessori
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- Henry Adams
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Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education. Be persistent and ornery: this will be good for the lethargic educational establishment and will aid the whole cause of public education.
- Roy Wilkins
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Rare is the child, I suspect, who wants to grow up to be an economist, or a professor. I grew up in a university town and went to a university-run high school, where most of my friends were faculty kids. I was so unfailing an A student that it was boring even to me.
- James Tobin
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
- Sam Houston
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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
- John Updike
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The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Helen Keller
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The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.
- Denis Diderot
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle
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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
- Maria Montessori
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
- C. S. Lewis
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Those who make a distinction between education and entertainment don't know the first thing about either.
- Marshall McLuhan
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We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.
- Bob Inglis
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