Education Quotes and Sayings - Page 3
Any attempt to reform the university without attending to the system of which it is an integral part is like trying to do urban renewal in New York City from the twelfth storey up.
Ivan Illich
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
Daniel J. Boorstin
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don’t know and I don’t care.
Richard Pratt
The rustics vie with each other in bringing up their ignoble and degenerate offspring to the liberal arts.
Walter Map
Educated: in the holidays from Eton.
Osbert Sitwell
Soon learnt, soon forgotten.
Proverb
Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don’t know.
R. Verdi
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.
Hutchins
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Vernon Cooper
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.
Marva Collins
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Henry Steele Commager
And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.
Horace
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Vernon Law
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison.
Evelyn Waugh
With just enough learning to misquote.
George Gordon
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Alec Bourne
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris
Education is not received. It is achieved.
Anonymous
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman
Medical education is not completed at the medical school: it is only begun.
William H. Welch
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman Douglas
Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.
Greek Proverb
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Mizner
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