Education Quotes and Sayings
Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G. K. Chesterton
Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.
Wu Ting-Fang
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spencer
Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.
William Allin
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Edith Ann
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
George Bernard Shaw
If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.
Ruby Manikan
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
Brander Matthews
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Albert Einstein
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter
Education made us what we are.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
A good clinical teacher is himself a Medical School.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark Twain
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Ariel and Will Durant
A teacher is paid to teach, not to sacrifice rats and hamsters.
Edward A. Gall
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Berlioz
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Bishop Mandell Creighton
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Diogenes Laertius
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett
It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first.
Samuel Johnson
And 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?
Maria Montessori
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There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
Submitted By: adminJohn Adams
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Submitted By: adminAristotle
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Submitted By: adminMarilyn vos Savant
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Submitted By: adminTyron Edwards
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Submitted By: adminMahatma Gandhi
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.
Submitted By: adminHelen Keller
What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. … What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.
Submitted By: adminGilbert Keith Chesterton
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Submitted By: adminMalcolm S. Forbes