Education Quotes

In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.

If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

The best marketing is education.

Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.

Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. We all know that education, more than anything else, improves our chances of building better lives.

When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.

In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love.

Some of the most exciting space education in the country is not coming out of Washington or New York or California or even Texas. It's coming from a place in Kansas called the Cosmosphere.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Success takes an investment in time, dedication, and sacrifice. This is true education. It is a process.

I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.

When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.

The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.

There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.

My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.

The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described as a community of scholars.

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.

The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

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.

Education must start from birth.

Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.

The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.

Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.