Quotes
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."
–Henry Brooks Adams [More Quotes from Henry Brooks Adams]
"The world is run by C students."
–Anonymous [More Quotes from Anonymous]
"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."
–Aristotle [More Quotes from Aristotle]
"Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."
–Ambrose Bierce [More Quotes from Ambrose Bierce]
"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."
–Henry Peter Brougham [More Quotes from Henry Peter Brougham]
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know."
–Gilbert K. Chesterton [More Quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton]
"Education is the fire-proofer of emotions."
–Frank Crane [More Quotes from Frank Crane]
"Education is a social process … Education is growth…. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself."
–John Dewey [More Quotes from John Dewey]
"Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends."
–Benjamin Disraeli [More Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli]
"Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance."
–Will Durant [More Quotes from Will Durant]
"There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."
–Ralph Waldo Emerson [More Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson]
"Only the educated are free."
–Epictetus [More Quotes from Epictetus]
"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."
–Edward Everett [More Quotes from Edward Everett]
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat."
–Martin H. Fischer [More Quotes from Martin H. Fischer]
"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 [More Quotes from Anatole France]
"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 [More Quotes from Anatole France]
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
–Benjamin Franklin [More Quotes from Benjamin Franklin]
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre."
–Gail Godwin [More Quotes from Gail Godwin]
"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."
–Emma Goldman [More Quotes from Emma Goldman]
"The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving."
–Russell Green [More Quotes from Russell Green]
"The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government."
–Sam Houston [More Quotes from Sam Houston]
"You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think."
–Elbert Hubbard [More Quotes from Elbert Hubbard]
"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."
–Victor Hugo [More Quotes from Victor Hugo]
"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."
–Thomas Jefferson [More Quotes from Thomas Jefferson]
"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education."
–John Fitzgerald Kennedy [More Quotes from John Fitzgerald Kennedy]
"Education is too important to be left solely to the educators."
–Francis Keppel [More Quotes from Francis Keppel]
"Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty."
–James Madison [More Quotes from James Madison]
"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 [More Quotes from Horace Mann]
"The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living."
–Wendell Phillips [More Quotes from Wendell Phillips]
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
–Chinese Proverb [More Quotes from Chinese Proverb]
"There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in."
–Will Rogers [More Quotes from Will Rogers]
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
–Theodore Roosevelt [More Quotes from Theodore Roosevelt]
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree."
–Lee Rudolph [More Quotes from Lee Rudolph]
"My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately."
–George Bernard Shaw [More Quotes from George Bernard Shaw]
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
–Mark Twain [More Quotes from Mark Twain]
"I never let schooling interfere with my education."
–Mark Twain [More Quotes from Mark Twain]
"Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
–Oscar Wilde [More Quotes from Oscar Wilde]
