Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten
B F SkinnerAll men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Sir Walter ScottThe 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 GardnerEducation is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
Lyndon JohnsonI 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 FortuneThe object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives
Robert HutchinsIt is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
Edmund BartonThe cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. [Education over punishment debate]
J Edgar HooverIf little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Tom RobbinsReading 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 HeimelOur 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 AgreEducation, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose BierceIf I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.
Missy ElliottWith 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 DarrowGentlemen: I have not had your advantages. What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.
Horatio BottomleyTimes 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 BlairI think that there's this prejudice, that people that have a college education are more intelligent than people that don't.
Casey AffleckWithout education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
Malcom XOur school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
Elizabeth BlackwellNo 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 GoldmanSince 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 a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl KrausEducation is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonThe first duty of a government is to give education to the people.
Simon BolivarEducation is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman DouglasIgnorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.
Christopher AndreaeNations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. [and therein lies the problem?]
Abraham FlexnerIt is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert G IngersollI only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.
Sparky AndersonI 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 GardnerHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H G WellsEducation is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
Brad HenryA liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job.
Caroline BirdEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson MandelaThe 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 BrundageAcademies are leading the reforms that will radically
improve secondary education in this country.
David MilibandEducation is the best provision for old age.
AristotleLife isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education
Thomas HughesI wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star
Shania TwainDon't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love.
Chris BurkeEducation's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm ForbesA 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 HepburnThe 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 GildersleeveEducation has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
Camille Paglia When you don't have an education, you have to use your brains.
Frank BaerEducation... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G M TrevelyanI respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson MiznerA 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 BoyerAnyone 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 HazlittWhat sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
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