Education Quotes

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

Education forms the common mind.

Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged.

My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.

Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.

The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. “Teaching to the middle” is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about.

England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

I have always believed and promoted the fact that education and access to the knowledge society involves lifelong learning.

Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.

One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.

It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.

I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

There was a long time I had no job security, no options and no education.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

If you grew up in a lower-income community, or less well-off, the belief is that the way to change that circumstance is through education.

The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach.

The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

Let those who follow me continue to build with the plumb of honor, the level of truth, and the square of integrity, education, courtesy and mutuality.

Art is the more spiritual side of education that really does saves lives and makes amazing individuals.

I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

I'm a big believer in education, period.

Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn

I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future.

What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.

The legislature are a little more difficult to educate than the governor is.

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.

Education has to endow you with an eagerness to surrender.