Quotes about education

"Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life."

Kraus, Karl on education   

"The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education."

La Bruyere, Jean De on education   

"We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go."

Leary, Timothy on education   

"The education of a man is never complete until he dies."

Lee, Robert E. on education
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"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

Lewis, C. S. on education
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"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."

Lincoln, Abraham on education
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"Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity."

Linzey, Andrew on education   

"No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people."

Lippmann, Walter on education   

"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."

Locke, John on education   

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"A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn."

Lubbock, Sir John on education   

"I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth."

Luther, Martin on education   

"Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty."

Madison, James on education   

"Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world."

Malcolm X on education
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"Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

Mann, Horace on education
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"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."

Mann, Horace on education   

"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."

Mann, Horace on education
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"The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir."

Mason, John L. on education
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"The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet."

Mcginley, Phyllis on education
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"The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing."

Mcluhan, Marshall on education   

"It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties."

Miller, Alice Duer on education   

"People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on education   

"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on education
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"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk -- they are all part of the curriculum."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on education
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"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"

Montessori, Maria on education   

"If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks."

Montessori, Maria on education   

"The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read."

More, Hannah on education   

"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance."

Moser, Sir Claus on education
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"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on education
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"Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future."

Paglia, Camille on education   

"Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue."

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi on education   

"Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices."

Peter, Laurence J. on education   

"The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living."

Phillips, Wendell on education   

"The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done -- men who are creative, inventive and discoverers."

Piaget, Jean on education   

"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery."

Plato on education   

"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

Plato on education
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"Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind."

Plato on education   

"Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined."

Pope, Alexander on education   

"Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better."

Porter, Sylvia on education
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"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding."

Pound, Ezra on education   

"An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body."

Quinet, Edgar on education