Quotes about Education
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You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.
Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, Accepted, 2006
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Alec Bourne
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 do know and what you don't.
Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.
Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990), New Scientist, May 21, 1964
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
Claiborne Pell (1918 - )
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
Clive James
School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.
Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 10-09-11
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 (1713 - 1784)
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Diogenes Laertius
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.
Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
Only the educated are free.
Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Gail Godwin
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), Outline of History (1920)
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881), July 12, 1880
Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.
Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07
That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.
Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.
John Green, Vlogbrothers, Is College Worth It?, 08-21-12
When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I'm much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that's partly because education gave me job opportunities, but it's mostly because education gave me perspective and context.
John Green, Vlogbrothers, Is College Worth It?, 08-21-12
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown (1900 - 1969)
Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. Henderson
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men recognize, and the only ruler that free men require.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman Douglas
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
Pete Seeger
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), Morals
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
R. D. Hitchcock
A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.
Reverend Edward A. Malloy, Monk's Reflections
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
If you feel that you have boy feet planted on the ground, then the university has failed you.
Robert Goheen
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.
Robert Hutchins (1899 - 1977)
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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.
Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
William James (1842 - 1910), The Principles of Psychology
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.
Wu Ting-Fang
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