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

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

Woody Allen, Director

"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

"It is only the ignorant who despise education"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

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

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Education is the best provision for old age"

Aristotle, Philosopher

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

Aristotle, Philosopher

"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

"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

"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

"There is no education like adversity"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

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

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

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

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"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

"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

"We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"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

"The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

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

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe"

H.G. Wells, Author

"History is a race between education and catastrophe"

H.G. Wells, Author

"We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries"

H.G. Wells, Author

"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed"

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined"

Alexander Pope, Poet

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