Education Quotes: Inspiring Words on Learning and Teaching

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

Lillian Smith, Novelist

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"Freedom can occur only through education"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run"

Mark Twain, Author

"Very likely education does not make very much difference"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance"

Will Durant, Historian

"Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess"

Karl Kraus, Writer

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth"

John F. Kennedy, President

"A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist

"Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"A college education shows a man how little other people know"

Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Author

"True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility"

Philip Pullman, Writer

"A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching"

A. Bartlett Giamatti, Educator

"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Don't let schooling interfere with your education"

Mark Twain, Author

"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education"

Mark Twain, Author

"This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth"

Diogenes, Philosopher

"Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"Nine tenths of education is encouragement"

Anatole France, Novelist

"If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"The giving of love is an education in itself"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor"

Terrence Howard, Actor

"Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education"

Zhuangzi, Philosopher

"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education"

John Bruton, Politician

"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat"

Allen West, Politician

"Education is all a matter of building bridges"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas"

Julian Bond, Activist

"I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer"

Jimmy Smits, Actor

"On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful"

Nelson A. Miles, Soldier

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