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Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
View quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Some people say we need to build on the Blair education reforms. This would be building on sand.
View quotes by David Davis

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
View quotes by John Locke

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
View quotes by Adolf Hitler

Gentlemen: I have not had your advantages. What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.
View quotes by Horatio Bottomley

Academies are leading the reforms that will radically
improve secondary education in this country.
View quotes by David Miliband

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
View quotes by Camille Paglia

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
View quotes by Elizabeth Blackwell

A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job.
View quotes by Caroline Bird

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
View quotes by John Gardner

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
View quotes by G M Trevelyan

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
View quotes by Lillian Smith

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
View quotes by Harold Rosenberg

Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
View quotes by William Hazlitt

Charles Clarke is someone who did very well as an education minister. He ran into problems at the Home Office. I'm not going to hold against him statements that he made.
View quotes by Gordon Brown

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. [and therein lies the problem?]
View quotes by Abraham Flexner

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
View quotes by Ezra Pound

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
View quotes by George Bernard Shaw

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance: that imitation is suicide: that he must take himself for better, or for worse.
View quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
View quotes by Hosea Ballou

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