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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.

Plato

Philosopher · Greek

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.

John F. Kennedy

President · American · 1917 – 1963

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

John F. Kennedy

President · American · 1917 – 1963

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.

Alexander Pope

Poet · English · 1688 – 1744

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.

John Ruskin

Writer · English · 1819 – 1900

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.

John Ruskin

Writer · English · 1819 – 1900

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Aristotle

Philosopher · Greek

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer · English · 1874 – 1936

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.

Plato

Philosopher · Greek

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.

Bertrand Russell

Philosopher · British · 1872 – 1970

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.

Karl Kraus

Writer · Austrian · 1874 – 1936

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

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