Education Quotes
Educational Quotes - Famous Education Quotes
Throughout the ages education has had many forms but one constant has always exised: education is passed along from person to person. Sharing these educational quotes with you is our own way of passing along this knowledge and educating our readers with insight and enlightment. These famous education quotes sometimes carry a whimsical tone but behind the humor they provide education advice that encourages thought and creativity.
Education Quotes for The Cynical
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- Henry Adams
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
- Woody Allen
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
- Tallulah Bankhead
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Derek Bok
Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
- Rita Mae Brown
Education is the period during which I was being instructed by somebody I did not know, about something I did not want to know.
- G. K. Chesterton
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
- Agnes George DeMille
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; Education is the progressive discovery of our ignorance.
- Will Durant
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
- Erich Fromm
We need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Football is a sport that bears the same relationship to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
- Elbert Hubbard
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
- Victor Hugo
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- C. S. Lewis
Now that education is so easy, men are drilled for greatness, just as dogs are trained to retrieve. In this way we've discovered a new sort of genius, those great at being drilled. These are the people who are mainly spoiling the market.
- G. C. Lichtenberg
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.
- John Lubbock
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
- Wilson Mizner
Education helps one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
- Mary Pettibone Poole
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
- Will Rogers
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.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
- Pete Seeger
My education [takes place] during the holidays from Eton.
- Osbert Sitwell
Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
- B. F. Skinner
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
- Josephine Tey
Education is going to college to learn to express your ignorance in scientific terms.
- Unknown
Education should include knowledge of what to do with it.
- Unknown
Never let your studies interfere with your education.
- Unknown
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
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
- Bill Vaughan
The whole problem of intellectual education is controlled by lack of time. If Methuselah was not a well-educated man, it was his own fault or that of his teachers.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Education Quotes for the Philosophical
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
- Joseph Addison
Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
- Ambrose Bierce
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
- Charlotte Bronte
Any place that anyone young can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
- Al Capp
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing is the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;. . . Genius will not;. . . Education will not; . . . Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
- Diogenes
There is no education like adversity.
- Benjamin Disraeli
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days.
- Fyodor Dostoyevs
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
- Henry Fielding
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
- Benjamin Franklin
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Frost
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
- Edward Gibbon
There can be no education without leisure, and without leisure education is worthless.
- Sarah Josepha Hale
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
- Sydney J. Harris
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
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.
- Thomas Huxley
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
- John F. Kennedy
An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. He tries and fails maybe a 1000 times. If he succeeds once then he's in.
- Charles Kettering
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
- Robert E. Lee
Education is about the only thing lying around loose the world, and it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away.
- George Lorimer
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 . . . . For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
- Maria Montessori
Any sort of training which aims at acquiring wealth or bodily strength is not worthy to be called education at all.
- Plato
It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
- Agnes Repplier
Education is what survives when what has been learnt is forgotten.
- B. F. Skinner
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
- Lilian Smith
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
- Anne Sullivan
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats