Good Education quotes: Best famous quotes about Education
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. – Heinrich Heine
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. – Victor Hugo
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. – Robert M. Hutchins
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. – Robert Green Ingersoll
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure. – Grayson Kirk
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. – Al McGuire
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. – A. A. Milne
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. – Michel de Montaigne
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. – Ezra Pound
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. – Ernest Renan
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. – Will Rogers
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. – Will Rogers
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. – Carl Rogers
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. – George Santayana
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. – B. F. Skinner
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. – Muriel Spark
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. – Henry David Thoreau
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. – G. M. Trevelyan
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. – Mark Twain
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. – Cornelius Vanderbilt
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 not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. – William Butler Yeats
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