Sunday, March 20, 2011

Quotes about Education


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

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

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

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, quoted in
You Said a Mouthful, Ronald D. Fuchs, ed.

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. ~Author Unknown

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~Robert G. Ingersoll

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~G.M. Trevelyan

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ~A.A. Milne

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. ~Abraham Flexner

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward Everett

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

Education should be exercise; it has become massage. ~Martin H. Fischer

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. ~Mark Twain

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins

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

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? ~Erich Fromm


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