Education - Quotes

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. - George Santayana

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special. - Nelson Mandela

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. - Horace Mann

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use. - Henry Ward Beecher

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. - Theodore Roosevelt

A people uneducated is like an iron mountain whose ore is unwrought. - Henry Ward Beecher

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars. - Henry Brooks Adams

All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual’s sensibilities in relation not only to one’s fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever. - Ashley Montagu

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. - Sir Walter Scott

All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing. - Ellen Gilchrist

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. - Anatole France

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously. - Charles F. Kettering

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated. - Horace Mann

As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind. - Amos Bronson Alcott

As farmers believe it most advantageous to sow in mist, so the first seeds of education should fall in the first and thickest most of life. - Jean Paul F. Richter

As we educate a child – removing out of its path those obstacles over which we ourselves, in early days, have stumbled, and strengthening its mind with the aid of our own matured experience – we, as it were, construct a new and better replica of ourselves, and thus enable the race to move slowly, but surely, forward towards the ultimate goal of existence – towards perfection. - Leonid Andreyev

Better untaught than ill-taught. - Grenville Kleiser

Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. - Arthur Lynch

Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track. - Emile Zola

Do not let your schooling get in the way of your education. - Mark Twain

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. - Plato    

Educate yourself. When something sparks your interest, read about it. Read, read, read. Study, learn, stimulate your brain. Don’t just rely on the school system, educate that beautiful mind of yours. - Unknown

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character. - Hosea Ballou

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism. - David Suzuki

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant. - Edward Everett

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. - Lawrence J. Peter

Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself. - John Dewey

Education is all a matter of building bridges. - Ralph Ellison

Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.- Ronald Reagan

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself. - Austin O’Malley

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. - Malcolm X

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. - Chanakya

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. - George Washington Carver

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. - Malcolm X

Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish! - Norman MacDonald

Education is an admirable thing, but it is as well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. - Aristotle

Educating yourself does not mean that you were stupid in the first place; it means that you are intelligent enough to know that there is plenty left to learn. - Melanie Joy

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. - Napoleon Hill

Education does not consist of the books read but rather the content that can be recalled. - Unknown

Education helps one cease being intimidated by strange situations. - Maya Angelou

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. – Aristotle

Education is just a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn. - Jay

Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know. - Elmer G. Letterman

Education is not just a tool to prepare you for life; it should be part of life itself. - Unknown

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think. - Albert Einstein

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. - Robert M. Hutchins

Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. - Ambrose Bierce

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. - Robert Frost

Education is the best provision for old age. - Aristotle

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mine worker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another. - Nelson Mandela

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. - Nelson Mandela

Education is the movement from darkness to light. - Allan Bloom

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. - Albert Einstein

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth. - Bertrand Russell

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm S. Forbes

Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it. - Henry Ward Beecher

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn

Getting an education by itself, of course, does not guarantee financial success. There must, after all, be an increase in demand for educated labour to match the increase in supply. - Frank Levy

How can man be intelligent, happy, or useful, without the culture and discipline of education? It is this that smooths and polishes the roughnesses of his nature. It is this that unlocks the prison-house of his mind, and releases the captive. - Herman Humphrey

I began my education at a very early age - in fact, right after I left college. - Winston Churchill

I consider that it is on instruction and education, that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests. - Lajos Kossuth

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. - Plato

If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education. It has intrinsic and indestructible merits. It holds the welfare of mankind in its embrace, as the protecting arms of a mother hold her infant to her bosom. The very ignorance and selfishness which obstructs its path are the strongest arguments for its promotion, for it furnishes the only adequate means for their removal. - Horace Mann

If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust. - George Horace Lorimer

In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a pre-requisite. - Barack Obama

In the march of universal improvement, education must lead the van. - Horace Mann

Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King Jr.

It depends on education – that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery. - Philip Sidney

It is a great art in the education of youth to find out peculiar aptitudes, or, where none exist, to create inclinations which may serve as substitutes. Different minds are like different soils: some are suited only to particular cultivation; others will mature almost anything; others, again, are best adapted to a round of ordinary products; and a few are wasted, unless they are reserved for what is most choice. - Thomas Walker

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young. - Bertrand Russell

It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self-thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what the race's great thinkers have already thought for him, thus enabling him to go ahead under his own mental steam. - Joseph Alexander Leighton

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. - Jacob Bronowski

It is only the ignorant that despise education. - Publilius Syrus

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. - Alec Bourne

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible. - Aristotle

It is vital that when educating our children’s brains, that we do not neglect to educate their hearts. - Unknown

It's never enough to just tell people about some new insight. Rather, you have to get them to experience it in a way that evokes its power and possibility. Instead of pouring knowledge into people's heads, you need to help them grind a new set of eyeglasses so they can see the world in a new way. - John Seely Brown

It is, in fact, little short of a miracle that the modern methods of education have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. - Albert Einstein

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant. - John Adams

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. - John W. Gardner

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least. - David P. Gardner

My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems. - Akio Morita

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself. - George Bernard Shaw

Next in importance to freedom and justice is education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. - James Garfield 

Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. - Anatole France

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. - Emma Goldman

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators. - Amos Bronson Alcott

Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything, and hence that it is a sign of ignorance to be surprised or puzzled by anything. - Erich Fromm

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. - Maria Montessori

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never. - Alexandre Dumas

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. - Mary Wortley Montagu

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man’s training begins; it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. - Thomas Henry Huxley

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education. - Chuang Tzu

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. - H. L. Mencken

Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child’s nature. - Charlotte Manson

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing. - Isaac Asimov

So many years of education, yet nobody ever taught us how to love ourselves and why it’s so important. - Unknown

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. - Leonardo da Vinci

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education. - Alice Waters

That’s what education should be, I said, “the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn’t be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn’t facing the right way. - Plato

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community – these are the most vital things education must try to produce. - Virginia Gildersleeve

The accumulation of facts, even if interesting in themselves, should not constitute the main part of education; these facts, whether they be of classical learning or knick-knacks of history, will be of little use unless the mind has been trained to see them in proper perspective. - Arthur Lynch

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think – rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. - James Beattie

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things. - G. K. Chesterton

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. - Plato

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead. - Aristotle

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. - Wendell Phillips

The education of a man is never completed until he dies. - Robert E. Lee

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. - Diogenes

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. - John F. Kennedy

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. - George Santayana

The highest result of education is tolerance. - Helen Keller 

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can’t. - Jonathan Alter

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth. - Marilyn vos Savant

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. - Newton D. Baker

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child’s home. - William Temple

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. - Robert M. Hutchins

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. - Mandell Creighton

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. - Carl Rogers

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. - James A. Baldwin

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive and discoverers. - Jean Piaget

The problem is not people being uneducated; the problem is that they are just educated enough to believe what they’ve been taught. And not educated enough to question what they’ve been taught. - Unknown

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do. - John Stuart Mill

The real object of education is to give children resources that will endure as long as life endures. - Sydney Smith

The roots of Education is bitter but the fruits are sweet. - Aristotle

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit. -  Samuel Johnson

The test and use of a man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. - Jacques Barzun

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. - Bronson (Amos) Alcott

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience. - Karl G. Maeser

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think. - Albert Einstein

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. - Rabindranath Tagore

The whole object of education is, or should be, to develop minds. - Sherwood Anderson

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. - Sydney J. Harris

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners. - Nicholas Butler

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. - James Adams

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no education like adversity. - Benjamin Disraeli

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper. - Horace Mann

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. - Aristotle

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind, have the greatest power. - Horace Mann

Though men be endowed with beauty and youth, and be born in a noble family, yet without education, they are like a palas tree, which is void of any sweet smell. - Chanakya

'Tis education forms the common mind, just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. - Alexander Pope

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete. - Epictetus

To develop in each individual all the perfection of which he is susceptible, is the object of education. - Immanuel Kant

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. - Theodore Roosevelt

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers. - Rabindranath Tagore

What defeats poverty? Education. What increases net worth? Education. What helps race and ethnic relations? Education. What creates harmony and peace? Education. Re-educating people to live together and learn together is the foundation of our future economy. - Melanie Alfonso

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook. - Henry David Thoreau

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. - Joseph Addison

Whatever helps to shape the human being – to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not – is part of his education. - John Stuart Mill

Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete. - G. K. Chesterton

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. - G. K. Chesterton

You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. - Gail Godwin

You should have education enough so that you won’t have to look up to people; and then more education so that you will be wise enough not to look down on people. - M. L. Boren

You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost. - George Horace Lorimer