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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Anatole France

Novelist · French · 1844 – 1924

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

William Glasser

Psychologist · American

My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.

Mike Pence

Politician · American · b. 1959

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

Paul Wellstone

Politician · American · 1944 – 2002

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

Jim Rohn

Businessman · American

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Jimmy Carter

President · American · b. 1924

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

Neil LaBute

Director · American · b. 1963

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

George W. Bush

President · American · b. 1946

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

Manuel Puig

Author · Argentinian · 1932 – 1990

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 K. Chesterton

Writer · English · 1874 – 1936

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

John Locke

Philosopher · English · 1632 – 1704

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Philosopher · Swiss · 1712 – 1778

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

William Glasser

Psychologist · American

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Theodore Roosevelt

President · American · 1858 – 1919

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

William Godwin

Writer · English · 1756 – 1836

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Plato

Philosopher · Greek

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

Walter Annenberg

Businessman · American · 1908 – 2002

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

Samuel Richardson

Novelist · English · 1689 – 1761

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Aldous Huxley

Novelist · English · 1894 – 1963

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Albert Einstein

Physicist · German · 1879 – 1955

Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.

Michael N. Castle

Politician · American · b. 1939

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

John Ruskin

Writer · English · 1819 – 1900

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

William Godwin

Writer · English · 1756 – 1836

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

Walter Scott

Novelist · Scottish · 1771 – 1832

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Jim Rohn

Businessman · American

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Judge · American · 1841 – 1935

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

C. S. Lewis

Author · British · 1898 – 1963

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Oscar Wilde

Dramatist · Irish · 1854 – 1900

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

Malcolm X

Activist · American · 1925 – 1965

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

Robert Morgan

Soldier · American · 1918 – 2004

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

Billy Sunday

Clergyman · American · 1862 – 1935

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Woody Allen

Director · American · b. 1935

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place.

Earl Warren

Judge · American · 1891 – 1974

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

Ron Kind

Politician · American · b. 1963

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

Simon Newcomb

Mathematician · Canadian · 1835 – 1909

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

Bobby Scott

Politician · American · b. 1947

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Poet · Indian · 1861 – 1941

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

Alphonso Jackson

Public Servant · American · b. 1945

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

President · American · 1882 – 1945

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

Sargent Shriver

Politician · American · b. 1915

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Mary Astell

Writer · English · 1666 – 1731

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Victor Hugo

Author · French · 1802 – 1885

Nature has always had more force than education.

Voltaire

Writer · French · 1694 – 1778

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Joseph Addison

Writer · English · 1672 – 1719

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Activist · American · 1815 – 1902

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

Norman Cousins

Editor · American · b. 1915

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Ambrose Bierce

Journalist · American · b. 1842

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

Aristotle

Philosopher · Greek

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