Education Quotes

30. Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

^{Edward Everett}

31. The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. – Education Quotes

^{James Baldwin}

32. It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

^{Robert Green Ingersoll}

33. The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

^{John F. Kennedy}

34. When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

^{Desiderius Erasmus}

35. A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

^{Norman Cousins}

36. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. – Education Quotes

^{Gail Godwin}

37. If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

^{Galileo Galilei}

38. Education is all a matter of building bridges.

^{Ralph Ellison}

39. The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

^{Robert M. Hutchins}

40. To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. – Education Quotes

^{A. A. Milne}

41. Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

^{Isaac Asimov}

42. I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

^{Arthur Schopenhauer}

43. Learn to think continentally. – Education Quotes

^{Alexander Hamilton}

44. I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

^{Walt Disney}

45. No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

^{Emma Goldman}

46. The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. – Education Quotes

^{Henry Wadsworth Longfellow}

47. Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

^{Thomas Jefferson}

48. Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

^{Ernest Dimnet}

49. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

^{Joseph Addison}

50. Governments never learn. Only people learn.

^{Milton Friedman}

51. If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. – Education Quotes

^{Francis Bacon}

52. I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

^{Carl Sagan}

53. If you become a teacher, by your pupils you’ll be taught.

^{Oscar Hammerstein II}

54. The mere imparting of information is not education.

^{Carter G. Woodson}

55. To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.

^{Caroline Kennedy}

56. He that loves reading has everything within his reach. – Education Quotes

^{William Godwin}

57. Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

^{Amos Bronson Alcott}

58. An educated people can be easily governed. – Education Quotes

^{Frederick the Great}

59. Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

^{G. M. Trevelyan}

60. Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

^{John W. Gardner}

61. Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

^{Alexander Pope}

62. He who laughs most, learns best. – Education Quotes

^{John Cleese}

63. I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

^{Ellen Ochoa}

64. The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child’s home.

^{William Temple}

65. It is better to learn late than never. – Education Quotes

^{Publilius Syrus}

66. The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

^{Angela Merkel}

67. It is always in season for old men to learn.

^Aeschylus

68. When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

^{Peter Drucker}

69. Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

^{Marcus Tullius Cicero}

70. Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. – Education Quotes

^Zhuangzi

71. Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

^{Ezra Pound}

72. A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

^{A. Bartlett Giamatti}

73. Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

^{Erich Fromm}

74. If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. – Education Quotes

^{Cornelius Vanderbilt}

75. It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. – Education Quotes

^{Harvey S. Firestone}

76. Good questions outrank easy answers.

^{Paul Samuelson}