EDUCATION QUOTES

• Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
  ~ William Butler Yeats ~
• The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind-manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea
  ~ Aldous Huxley ~
• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
  ~ Robert Frost ~
• We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
  ~ Sir Walter Scott ~
• The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
  ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton ~
• Education is understanding what is.
  ~ Ibiba Ibinabo ~
• Education without discipline is like a holiday on a weekend.
  ~ Akhungu Vanon ~
• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• What does education often do It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
  ~ Aleister Crowley ~
• To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
  ~ Aleister Crowley ~
• To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• 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 quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
  ~ Maya Angelou ~
• The education of the will is the object of our existence.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
  ~ Charlotte Brontë ~
• Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
  ~ John Ruskin ~
• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
  ~ Robert Frost ~
• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
  ~ William Butler Yeats ~
• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
  ~ Sir Walter Scott ~
• Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
  ~ Lawrence Welk ~
• Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
  ~ Lawrence Welk ~
• Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
  ~ Lawrence Welk ~
• If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
  ~ Frank Zappa ~
• The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.
  ~ Muhammad Yunus ~
• I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.
  ~ Haile Gebrselassie ~
• Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
  ~ Rita Mae Brown ~
• A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.
  ~ Temple Grandin ~
• Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
  ~ John Maynard Keynes ~
• The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
  ~ Wendell Phillips ~
• What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
  ~ Wendell Phillips ~
• Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.
  ~ Eric Ries ~
• Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.
  ~ George Osborne ~
• With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.
  ~ Jennifer Granholm ~
• To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.
  ~ Jennifer Granholm ~
• With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.
  ~ Jennifer Granholm ~
• I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.
  ~ Jack White ~
• I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.
  ~ Jack White ~
• I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.
  ~ Cate Blanchett ~
• You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.
  ~ Wangari Maathai ~
• You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.
  ~ Wangari Maathai ~
• You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.
  ~ Wangari Maathai ~
• Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
  ~ Angela Davis ~
• Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
  ~ Barbara Jordan ~
• In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.
  ~ David Miliband ~
• Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
  ~ Joe Baca ~
• As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.
  ~ Joe Baca ~
• Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.
  ~ Joe Baca ~
• Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
  ~ Joe Baca ~
• As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.
  ~ Joe Baca ~
• Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.
  ~ Joe Baca ~
• It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.
  ~ Charles Babbage ~
• It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.
  ~ Charles Babbage ~
• It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.
  ~ Christy Turlington ~
• It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.
  ~ Christy Turlington ~
• When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.
  ~ Andrea Jung ~
• When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.
  ~ Andrea Jung ~
• When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.
  ~ Andrea Jung ~
• 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.
  ~ Edward Gibbon ~
• Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
  ~ Michael Morpurgo ~
• Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
  ~ Michael Morpurgo ~
• A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.
  ~ Michael Morpurgo ~
• A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.
  ~ Michael Morpurgo ~
• One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.
  ~ Michael Morpurgo ~
• Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
  ~ Michael Morpurgo ~
• Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
  ~ Garrett Hardin ~
• Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
  ~ Garrett Hardin ~
• For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
  ~ James Hillman ~
• The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.
  ~ Dennis Miller ~
• You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.
  ~ Dennis Miller ~
• We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
  ~ Arthur Ashe ~
• We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
  ~ Arthur Ashe ~
• Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.
  ~ John Dewey ~
• Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
  ~ John Dewey ~
• The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
  ~ John Dewey ~
• The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
  ~ John Dewey ~
• Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
  ~ John Dewey ~
• Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.
  ~ John Dewey ~
• The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education jobs emotional health physical health and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.
  ~ Warren Farrell ~
• The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education jobs emotional health physical health and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.
  ~ Warren Farrell ~
• Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
  ~ George Will ~
• Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
  ~ George Will ~
• Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
  ~ George Will ~
• Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
  ~ Maria Montessori ~
• Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
  ~ Maria Montessori ~