Education Quotes

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries the patience of Job; it is a great thing if one does not go backward.

The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write songs like, "What I'm going to do if I grow up".

It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.

Once you get your education it's going to open up so many doors for you. And the sky's the limit. So that's what I want to deliver to students.

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

I discovered that success has very little to do with education or race or disposition; it has more to do with principles and following those principles.

Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects.

An education is the investment with the greatest returns.

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

Education is not something to prepare you for life; it is a continuous part of life.

I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

Love affairs are the real only education in life.

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

The importance of education plays a huge role.

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

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

Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had. You simply cannot do that on a computer.

Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one.

Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.

How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.

In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?