A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
Smiley BlantonReading 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 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 BrundageI only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.
Sparky AndersonIf someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around
Jim RohnEducation is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman DouglasThe purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
Harold RosenbergEducation is the cornerstone of our communities and our country
Bill FristDemography 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 BakerThe 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 JohnsonEducation is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Horace MannAnyone 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 HazlittI 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 GardnerThe 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 RellEducation 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 EdisonWhen you don't have an education, you have to use your brains.
Frank BaerEverything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights
Susan TaylorThe Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
Avery BrundageThe paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James BaldwinVitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realise the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
B C ForbesI 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 AddisonNo 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 GoldmanThe ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
Mary Wortley MontaguPerhaps 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 do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial.
Timothy FortuneI'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 DashEducation is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
Brad HenryEducation is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
AristotleWhat sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph AddisonThe object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives
Robert HutchinsThe 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 GildersleeveCharles 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 BrownI admired Hitler because he came from being a little man with almost no education to power. But I didn't admire him for what he did with it.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerEducation commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Hosea BallouA quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.
Audrey HepburnEducation is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
John DeweySince every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
Emma GoldmanEducation is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonA child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes JrOlympism 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 CoubertinThe first duty of a government is to give education to the people.
Simon BolivarIf I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.
Missy ElliotHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H G WellsNothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common then unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ' press on ' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin CoolidgeThe cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. [Education over punishment debate]
J Edgar HooverA fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard ShawThe real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions
Bishop CreightonAll real education is the architecture of the soul.
William J BennettI 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 FarmerI 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 Jefferson
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