Education Quotes

"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance."
-Abraham Lincoln

"There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
-Mark Twain

"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run."
-Mark Twain

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

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

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

"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?"
-Matt Groening

"Education has for its object the formation of character."
-Herbert Spencer

"Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
-Will Durant

"Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor."
-Horace Mann

"Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a preparation for life but is life itself."
-John Dewey

"Education is the cheap defense of nations."
-Edmund Burke

"Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational."
-Charles M. Schulz

"Education is the transmission of civilization."
-Will Durant

"Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
-Will Durant

"The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge."
-John Ruskin

"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.'"
-Charlotte Bronte

"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."
-Thomas H. Huxley

"To teach is to learn twice."
-Joseph Joubert

"College isn't the place to go for ideas."
-Helen Keller

"It is only the ignorant who despise education."
-Publilius Syrus

"To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains."
-Mary Pettibone Poole

"The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us."
-Norman Cousins

"If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay-public."
-Isocrates

"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat."
-Martin H. Fischer