Education Quotes

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.

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.