Quotes about Education
A man's errors are his portals of discovery. - James Joyce
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. - Albert Einstein
What we do not understand, we do now possess. - Johann Wolfgang Goethe Quote
No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. - G.K. Chesterton Quote
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. - Jean Rostand
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. - Doug Larson Quote
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. - Bill Beattie
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. - James A. Michener
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour. - Helen Keller
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. - Sydney J. Harris
The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. - Todd Bodett
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde Quote
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. - Daniel Boorstin
A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education. - Smiley Blanton, MD
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. - Albert Einstein Quote
Education is the ability to meet life's situations. - Dr. John G. Hibben (as quoted in How to Win Friends & Influence People
, by Dale Carnegie.)
Education is the transmission of civilization. - Ariel and Will Durant
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. - John Powell
What the heart knows today, the head will understand tomorrow. - James Stephens
Today is yesterday's pupil. - Benjamin Franklin Quote
There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. - Will Rogers Quote
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. - Robert Hutchens
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. - Albert Einstein Quote
Ye can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think. - Finley Peter Dunne
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. - John Dewey
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books, alone. - Horace Quote
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. - Abraham Lincoln Quote
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Anonymous
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. - Will Rogers
It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. - Author Unknown
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is educated. - Edith Hamilton
Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb
Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars. - John F. Kennedy
Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment. - Lord Ritchie-Calder
Education is not received. It is achieved. - Author Unknown
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. - George Bernard Shaw
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. - Aristotle
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed. - Helen Keller Quote
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. - John Dewey
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. - Arthur Koestler
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free. - Epictetus
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. - Albert Einstein
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow. - Maria Mitchell
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society. - John Dewey
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. - Ben Sweetland
There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies. - Henry Ward Beecher
To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it, requires brains. - Mary Pettibone Poole
You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. - Ethel Barrymore
