If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.
Missy ElliotThe 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 BaldwinA thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore RooseveltIf 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 RohnReading 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 cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. [Education over punishment debate]
J Edgar HooverNothing 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 elimination of war should be the major task of social education
Konrad LorenzEducation... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G M TrevelyanEducation 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 learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel BoorstinEducation is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl KrausRewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
Chuang TzuEducation is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Horace MannA 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 RooseveltOlympism 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 CoubertinIgnorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.
Christopher AndreaeMe having no education. I had to use my brains.
Bill ShanklyA child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes JrI 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 AddisonPrejudices, 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 BronteAll men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Sir Walter ScottI respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson MiznerDon't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love.
Chris BurkeWhy should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich FrommInvesting in education comes first
Gordon BrownTo 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 GreenspanWhat is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell PhillipsIf you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
Peter F DruckerI 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 FarmerHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H G WellsThere 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 EmersonEducation, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose BierceEducation is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
AristotleAll real education is the architecture of the soul.
William J Bennett'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 JonesIt is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
Edmund BartonThe 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 GardnerAn 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 FranceThe object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives
Robert HutchinsThe 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 BrundageThe roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
AristotleI wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star
Shania TwainI 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 FortuneEducation begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John LockeNo 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 purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
Harold RosenbergWith 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 DarrowEducation is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonMuch 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.
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