Quotes about education

"I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive."

Gardner, John W. on education   

"Most owners of small businesses openly state that they believe in the value of skills and operational training. However, they also admit that they themselves undertake very little training, or offer only limited training to their employees, because of time restraints."

Gerstenhaber, Moshe on education   

"Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom."

Giraudoux, Jean on education   

"They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on education
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"Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other."

Goldman, Emma on education   

"We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence."

Gourmont, Remy De on education   

"America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering."

Graham, Billy on education
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"The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education."

Gray, Paul E. on education
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"We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty."

Grimke, Angelina on education   

"Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it."

Haley, Sir William on education
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"Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone."

Hannah, John A. on education   

"Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape."

Hazlitt, William on education
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"Education is the art of making man ethical."

Hegel, Georg on education
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"Much learning does not teach understanding."

Heraclitus on education
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"Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with book learning, theoretically legitimizes the traditional trash and trains the children to know without understanding and to accept denominations for definitions. Astray in his conceptions, entangled in words, man loses the flair for truth, the taste for nature. What a powerful intellect must you possess, to be suspicious of this moral carbon dioxide and with your head swimming already, to hurl yourself out of it into the fresh air, with which, into the bargain, everyone round is trying to scare you!"

Herzen, Alexander on education   

"Education is the ability to meet life's situations."

Hibben, Dr. John G. on education
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"Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought."

Hill, Napoleon on education
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"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell on education
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"People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have."

Holt, John on education   

"The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government."

Houston, Sam on education
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"You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think."

Hubbard, Elbert on education
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"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

Hugo, Victor on education
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"The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty."

Hutchins, Robert M. on education
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"The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness."

Hutchins, Robert M. on education
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"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible."

Hutchins, Robert M. on education   

"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

Huxley, Aldous on education
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"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."

Huxley, Aldous on education
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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the things 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 person's training begins, it is probably the last lesson a person learns thoroughly."

Huxley, Thomas H. on education
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"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."

Huxley, Thomas H. on education   

"The public school has become the established church of secular society."

Illich, Ivan on education   

"The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work."

Jackson, Michael on education
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"I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am."

James, Alice on education   

"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."

Jefferson, Thomas on education
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"I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond."

Kafka, Franz on education   

"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation."

Kennedy, John F. on education
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"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."

Kennedy, John F. on education
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"Education is too important to be left solely to the educators."

Keppel, Francis on education
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"The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present."

Key, Ellen on education   

"Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs."

King, Florence on education   

"Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots."

Kraus, Karl on education