Education Quotes

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Devotion is the realization that wealth, education and power are God given gifts and not the endowments of fate.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated I would be a damn fool.

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

New facts often trigger new ideas

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.