Education Quotes

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.