Education quotes

Adams Henry Brooks 1838-1918

The Education of Henry Adams

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Antisthenes c. 445-c. 370 BC

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

Bacon Francis 1561-1626

Essays „Of Travel"

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance  into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Barzun Jacques

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds  pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Bierce Ambrose 1842-c. 1914

The Devil's Dictionary

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

Bok Derek 1930-

If you think education is expensive - try ignorance.

Bottomley Horatio 1860-1933

(Speech at the Oxford Union)

Gentlemen: I have not had your advantages. What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

Brougham Lord 1778-1868

(attributed)

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Bush Barbara 1925-

Good education is the essential foundation of a strong democracy.

Disraeli Benjamin 1804-1881

Upon the education of the people of this  country the fate of this country depends.

Dryden John 1631-1700

The Hind and the Panther

By education most have been misled;
So they believe, because they so were bred.
The priest continues what the nurse began,
And thus the child imposes on the man.

Eliot T.S. 1888-1965

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and  emotional limitations of our time.

Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882

The things taught in schools are not an education  but the means of an education.

Frost Robert 1874-1963

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

Frye Northrop 1912-1991

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous nation that education is a preparation for life.

Gardner John W. 1912-

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the  individual the burden of pursuing his education.

Gray G.L.

The television commercial is the most efficient power-packed capsule of education that appears anywhere on TV.

Gregg Alan

A good education should leave much to be desired.

Huxley Thomas 1825-1895

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make  yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether  you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and  however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson
that he learns thoroughly.

Jeffrey Peter

If...

„Education in Britain is a nubile Cinderella, sparsely clad and often interfered with."

Joubert Joseph 1754-1824

Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.

Lichtenberg G.C. 1742-1799

Most men of education are more superstitious  than they admit - nay, than they think.

Locke John 1632-1704

Some Thoughts Concerning Education

The rod, which is the only instrument of government that tutors generally know, or ever think of, is the most unfit of any to be used in education.

Milton John 1608-1674

Of Education

I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits  a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices  both private and public of peace and war.

Phillips Wendell 1811-1884

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but  the first step toward something better.

Plato 429-347 BC

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Pope Alexander 1688-1744

Epistles to Several Persons „To Lord Cobham"

„Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Pound Ezra 1885-1972

The ABC of Reading

Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Rogers Will 1879-1935

Autobiography

There is only one thing that can kill the movies, and that is education.

Ruskin John 1819-1900

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning education.

Scott Sir Walter 1771-1832

Letter to J.G. Lockhart, 1830

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Skinner B.F. 1904-1990

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Spark Muriel 1918-

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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.

Spencer Herbert 1820-1903

Social Statics

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Steele Sir Richard 1672-1729

(of Lady E. Hastings)

To love her is a liberal education.

Thomas Dylan 1914-1953

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and  all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Trollope Anthony 1815-1882

There is no villainy to which education cannot reconcile us.

Twain Mark 1835-1910

A Curious Dream „Facts concerning..."

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Twain Mark 1835-1910

Pudd'nhead Wilson

Caulifower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Wells H.G. 1866-1946

The Outline of History

Human history becomes more and more a race  between education and catastrophe.

Wesker Arnold 1932-

Roots

Education ent only books and music - it's asking questions, all the time.
There are millions of us, all over the country, and no one, not one of us, is asking
quetions, we're all taking the easiest way out.

Whitehead Alfred North 1861-1947

The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious.
There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal,
and no liberal education which is not technical.

Whitehead Alfred North 1861-1947

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

Wiggan A.E.

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education.
Education appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.

Wood James Mason

Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.

Yeats William Butler 1865-1939

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

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