Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
Sir Thomas MoreWhy should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich FrommThe first duty of a government is to give education to the people.
Simon BolivarA 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.
Theodore RooseveltA child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes JrFormal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim RohnThe whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney HarrisEducation helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
Maya AngelouWith all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
Clarence DarrowFinancial 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 BachThe 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 GildersleeveIf I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.
Missy ElliotCharles 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.
Gordon BrownEducation is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
Brad HenryA good education should leave much to be desired.
Alan GreggParents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
Judith MartinWhat is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell PhillipsAn 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 FranceOne size does not fit all, particularly with education. The more we try to homogenise, the more we really need to differentiate.
Charles HandyIf you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
Peter F DruckerThe 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 RellInvesting in education comes first
Gordon BrownEducation, education, education (well-known mantra)
Tony BlairRewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
Chuang Tzu'It is by no means enough that an officer be capable...He should be a gentleman of liberal education, refined, manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor... No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.'
John Paul JonesAnyone 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.
William HazlittEducation is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel BoorstinEducation is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman DouglasEducation about the animals is the most important thing to me.
Steve IrwinI respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson MiznerIf little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Tom RobbinsA sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
Smiley BlantonEducation is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
AristotleA thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore RooseveltI wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.
Thomas DayOur 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 AgreI only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.
Sparky AndersonAll men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Sir Walter ScottThe elimination of war should be the major task of social education
Konrad LorenzThe real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions
Bishop CreightonEducation... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G M TrevelyanAcademies are leading the reforms that will radically
improve secondary education in this country.
David MilibandI 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 GardnerTo 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 GreenspanThe ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
Mary Wortley MontaguIt is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
Edmund BartonEducation is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will DurantMy mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
George WashingtonHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H G WellsThe ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
John Gardner
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