1,529 quotes
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher · German · 1844 – 1900
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Winston Churchill
Statesman · English · 1874 – 1965
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli
Statesman · British · 1804 – 1881
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Eric Hoffer
Writer · American · 1902 – 1983
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
Dramatist · Irish · 1854 – 1900
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato
Philosopher · Greek
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
Poet · American · 1874 – 1963
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
Thomas Jefferson
President · American · 1743 – 1826
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer · English · 1874 – 1936
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. Kennedy
President · American · 1917 – 1963
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope
Poet · English · 1688 – 1744
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Statesman · Roman
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Henry Ward Beecher
Clergyman · American · 1813 – 1887
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William James
Philosopher · American · 1842 – 1910
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
Physicist · German · 1879 – 1955
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John Ruskin
Writer · English · 1819 – 1900
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl Kraus
Writer · Austrian · 1874 – 1936
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher · British · 1872 – 1970
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Horace
Poet · Roman
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Aristotle
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
Taylor Caldwell
Author · American · 1900 – 1985
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain
Author · American · 1835 – 1910
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.
Robert Morgan
Soldier · American · 1918 – 2004
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
Gustave Flaubert
Novelist · French · 1821 – 1880
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
Emma Goldman
Activist · Lithuanian · 1869 – 1940
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Aurelius
Soldier · Roman · 121 – 180
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
Jean de la Bruyere
Philosopher · French
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound
Poet · American · 1885 – 1972
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Baltasar Gracian
Philosopher · Spanish · 1601 – 1658
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Khalil Gibran
Poet · 1883 – 1931
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
Writer · American · b. 1946
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
Carl Sandburg
Poet · American · 1878 – 1967
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana
Philosopher · American · 1863 – 1952
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody Allen
Director · American · b. 1935
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
George Orwell
Author · British · 1903 – 1950
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Writer · American · 1809 – 1894
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
William Glasser
Psychologist · American
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
William Godwin
Writer · English · 1756 – 1836