Education Quotes

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Me having no education. I had to use my brains.

Asking Wall Street to provide financial education is the same as asking a fox to raise your chickens.

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.

A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.

I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.

There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

In business, I loved cars. I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue what you like.

Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.

Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.

We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright.

By education most have been misled.

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.

The real safeguard of democracy is education.

The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us

An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.

Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.

We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.

Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents.

I was very fortunate to be able to go to school and university, because many people our age couldn't complete school. This gift of education must be used in whatever ways we can to uplift the people.

IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

Who said to kill does not require gentleness?

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

An athletic scholarship shouldn’t be the best opportunity to receive a quality education.

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.