Quotes about education

"Formal education is but an incident in the lifetime of an individual. Most of us who have given the subject any study have come to realize that education is a continuous process ending only when ambition comes to a halt."

Rees, R. I. on education   

"Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?"

Richards, Beah on education   

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."

Rogers, Carl on education
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"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

Rohn, Jim on education
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"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."

Roosevelt, Theodore on education
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"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

Roosevelt, Theodore on education
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"The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight."

Rosenberg, Harold on education   

"We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on education   

"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree."

Rudolph, Lee on education   

"The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced."

Ruskin, John on education
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"Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs."

Ruskin, John on education   

"The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work."

Ruskin, John on education   

"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."

Santayana, George on education
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"Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated."

Savage, Robert C. on education   

"True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world."

Schelling, Felix E. on education   

"Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself."

Schlegel, Friedrich on education   

"The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on education   

"What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real."

Shaw, George Bernard on education   

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"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic) on education   

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college."

Smith, Lillian on education   

"All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on education   

"Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men."

Socrates on education
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"An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all"

Socrates on education
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"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion."

Spark, Muriel on education   

"Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."

Stalin, Joseph on education   

"The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that."

Sterling, John on education   

"A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear."

Stockdale, James B. on education   

"Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness."

Stowe, Harriet Beecher on education   

"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think."

Sullivan, Anne on education   

"It is only the ignorant who despise education."

Syrus, Publilius on education
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"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all."

Szasz, Thomas on education   

"How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?"

Thoreau, Henry David on education
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"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."

Thoreau, Henry David on education
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"There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin."

Tocqueville, Alexis De on education   

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"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."

Unknown, Source on education   

"A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it."

Unknown, Source on education   

"The world is run by C students."

Unknown, Source on education
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"You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much."

Unknown, Source on education