Monday, October 6, 2008

Educational Quotes compiled by: Jerry Tandoy


Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Author: Malcolm S. Forbes
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Author: Joseph Stalin
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Author: Aristotle
Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
Author: Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
Author: James Baldwin
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.
Author: Plato
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Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Author: Alec Bourne
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Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.
Author: Paul Chambers
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.
Author: Leonard L. Levinson
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Author: Albert Einstein
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Those who trust us educate us.
Author: George Eliot
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The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Author: Martin H. Fischer
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Author: Anatole France
We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
Author: David P. Gardner
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
Author: Paul E. Gray
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
Author: Sir William Haley
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Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
Author: John A. Hannah
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Education is the ability to meet life's situations.
Author: Dr. John G. Hibben
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People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
Author: John Holt
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Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
Author: Francis Keppel
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Author: Karl Kraus
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Author: Timothy Leary
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Author: C. S. Lewis
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A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
Author: Sir John Lubbock
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Author: Wendell Phillips
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Author: Carl Rogers
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Author: Jim Rohn
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
Author: John Ruskin
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
Author: Robert C. Sava
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
Author: Source Unknown
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.
Author: Charles Schulz
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Author: Aristotle
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Author: Victor Hugo
There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Author: Will Rogers
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Author: Tom Robbins
We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.
Author: Frank Rizzo
We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.
Author: Ronald Reagan
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Author: Will Durant
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Author: Winston Churchill
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Author: Alec Bourne
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Author: Erich Fromm
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated.
Author: Edith Hamilton

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