Education Quotes

• 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.

• 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.

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