Education Quotes and Sayings - Page 6
If a man is a fool, you don’t train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.
Desmond Bagley
Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.
Ellen Key
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
John Cotton Dana
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is to be educated.
Edith Hamilton
The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.
John Osborne
Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility that society owes to itself.
Robin Cook
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en;
In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
William Shakespeare
It doesn’t make much difference what you study, as long as you don’t like it.
Finley Peter Dunne
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
R. D. Hitchcock
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That’s what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
Chinese Proverbs
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers
Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
Niels Bohr
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
Nicholas Murray Butler
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
Chinese Proverb
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will Rogers
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok
You don’t need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.
Adam Cooper and Bill Collage
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
Barbara Tuchman
I have learned since to be a better student, and to be ready to say to my fellow students ‘I do not know.’
William Osler
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Tom Brokaw
I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.
Clark Kerr
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins
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