Education Quotes

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.

Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.

Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men recognize, and the only ruler that free men require.

If you feel that you have boy feet planted on the ground, then the university has failed you.

There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.

When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I'm much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that's partly because education gave me job opportunities, but it's mostly because education gave me perspective and context.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

Education is the best provision for old age.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Only the educated are free.

A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Wit is educated insolence.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

He listens well who takes notes.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

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

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

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

I believe one of the reasons so many do not get a higher education is the fear of their parents that they will lose more morally than they will receive mentally.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

Learning has been [a] great loser by being shut up in colleges and cells and secluded from the world and good company.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Learning without thought is labor lost.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

If you want to get laid, go to college, but if you want an education, go to the library.

We are living in a world, where what we earn is a function of what we learn.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers, poor urban families just want the best education for their children, who will certainly need it to function in our high-tech and advanced society.

People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-�-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

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

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.