Education Quotes: Inspiring Words on Learning and Teaching (Page 3)

"The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education"

James S. Coleman, Sociologist

"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"

Maria Montessori, Educator

"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"Nature has always had more force than education"

Voltaire, Writer

"I've never let my school interfere with my education"

Mark Twain, Author

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education"

Mark Twain, Author

"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned"

Mark Twain, Author

"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy"

Woody Allen, Director

"I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers"

Woody Allen, Director

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability"

Cicero, Philosopher

"I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability"

Cicero, Philosopher

"It is only the ignorant who despise education"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education"

Plato, Philosopher

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life"

Plato, Philosopher

"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery"

Plato, Philosopher

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue"

Plato, Philosopher

"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life"

Plato, Philosopher

"For good nurture and education implant good constitutions"

Plato, Philosopher

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"There is no education like adversity"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence"

Robert Frost, Poet

"Education is hanging around until you've caught on"

Robert Frost, Poet

"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard"

Robert Frost, Poet

"The illegal wildlife trade is a complex problem that requires a multifaceted solution. We need a combination of law enforcement, consumer education, and community engagement to end this destructive trade"

Peter Knights, Activist

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

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