Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
John DeweyDemography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.
Howard BakerOur school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
Elizabeth BlackwellEducation alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace MannOlympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinEducation is an admirable thing, but it is worth noting that there is nothing worth knowing that can be taught
Oscar WildeWhen you don't have an education, you have to use your brains.
Frank BaerOur single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.
Peter AgreThe elimination of war should be the major task of social education
Konrad LorenzA good education should leave much to be desired.
Alan GreggEducation is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonEducation isn't play - and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.
Thomas EdisonThe Scots should not get free university education subsidised by us in England. They shouldn't get free nursing care.
Boris JohnsonI certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. [if the massive marketing behind such things is a success for sure!]
Fannie FarmerThe ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.
Virginia GildersleeveTimes are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism
Tony BlairReal education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra PoundEducation's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm ForbesThe quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand.
Miguel FerrerIf little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Tom RobbinsThe idea that Gordon Brown goes round and tells other ministers what to do, let me tell you, I'm the secretary of state for education, nobody comes and tells me what to do
Alan JohnsonPerhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
Thomas HuxleyI 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.
John GardnerIf you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
Peter F DruckerEducation is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten
B F SkinnerThe best maths lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.
Jodi RellReading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.
Cynthia HeimelWhat sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph AddisonIgnorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.
Christopher AndreaeI wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.
Thomas DayThe first duty of a government is to give education to the people.
Simon BolivarFinancial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it’s not just the rich kids that learn about money... it’s all of us.
David BachAcademies are leading the reforms that will radically
improve secondary education in this country.
David MilibandIf I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.
Missy ElliotThere 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.
Ralph Waldo EmersonUpon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin DisraeliMost people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are wrong, but our education system is such that many people don't know it
Richard DawkinsEducation begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John LockeEducation is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel BoorstinThe sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
Avery BrundageAttitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
W C FieldsEducation, education, education (well-known mantra)
Tony BlairCuriosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person
David HumeUniversal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
Adolf HitlerEducation is the cornerstone of our communities and our country
Bill FristI know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them by education.
Thomas JeffersonThe ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
Mary Wortley MontaguInvesting in education comes first
Gordon BrownNo one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma GoldmanI'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that. [Surely not!]
Sam Dash
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