A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard ShawEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson MandelaI only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.
Sparky AndersonNations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. [and therein lies the problem?]
Abraham FlexnerA child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes JrPublic education is an investment in our future.
Matt BluntThere 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 EmersonA liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job.
Caroline BirdThe 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 BrundageA sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
Smiley BlantonAll men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Sir Walter ScottThe first duty of a government is to give education to the people.
Simon BolivarEducation, education, education (well-known mantra)
Tony BlairI consider a human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.
Joseph AddisonOlympism 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 CoubertinTo succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
Alan GreenspanIgnorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.
Christopher AndreaeI 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 FarmerWhat sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph AddisonThe cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. [Education over punishment debate]
J Edgar HooverReal education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra PoundThe 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 HeimelThe ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
Mary Wortley MontaguEducation is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl KrausEducation is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
Lyndon JohnsonThere are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOur 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 purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
Harold RosenbergWhy should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich FrommThe real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions
Bishop CreightonSome people say we need to build on the Blair education reforms. This would be building on sand.
David DavisAcademies are leading the reforms that will radically
improve secondary education in this country.
David MilibandEducation has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
Camille Paglia Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
Malcom XEducation is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel BoorstinEducation begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John LockeCuriosity, 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 HumeAn education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Anatole FranceEducation 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 EdisonEducation is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Horace MannIf you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
Peter F DruckerPerhaps 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 HuxleyMuch education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
John GardnerIn the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
Bobby ScottA different type of education came when as a member of a medical corps in the National Guard I spent several weeks in a military camp in California.
Paul D BoyerEducation helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
Maya AngelouWhen Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education
James McCoshEducation is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman DouglasPrejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
Charlotte Bronte
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