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

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela

I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.
Sparky Anderson

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

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

Public education is an investment in our future.
Matt Blunt

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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The 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 Brundage

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
Smiley Blanton

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Sir Walter Scott

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.
Simon Bolivar

Education, education, education (well-known mantra)
Tony Blair

I 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 Addison

Olympism 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 Coubertin

To 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 Greenspan

Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.
Christopher Andreae

I 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 Farmer

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. [Education over punishment debate]
J Edgar Hoover

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

The 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 Rell

Reading 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 Heimel

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
Mary Wortley Montagu

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl Kraus

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
Lyndon Johnson

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our 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 Agre

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

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm

The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions
Bishop Creighton

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

Academies are leading the reforms that will radically
improve secondary education in this country.
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.
Camille Paglia

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
Malcom X

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel Boorstin

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

Curiosity, 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 Hume

An 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 France

Education 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 Edison

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Horace Mann

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
Peter F Drucker

Perhaps 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 Huxley

Much 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 Gardner

In 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 Scott

A 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 Boyer

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
Maya Angelou

When 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 McCosh

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman Douglas

Prejudices, 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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