Education Quotes: Inspiring Words on Learning and Teaching (Page 4)

"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

"If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?"

Virginia Woolf, Author

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

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"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

"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

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

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them"

John Ruskin, Writer

"The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education"

John Ruskin, Writer

"The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work"

John Ruskin, Writer

"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

"We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education"

Will Rogers, Actor

"The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil"

C. S. Lewis, Author

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

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"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 progressive discovery of our own ignorance"

Will Durant, Historian

"Education is the transmission of civilization"

Will Durant, Historian

"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody"

Jane Austen, Writer

"We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment"

George Orwell, Author

"An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her"

George Washington, President

"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice"

Horace, Poet

"Education is the cheap defense of nations"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"The most wonderful result of all education is to make you do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not"

H. C. Andersen, Writer

"Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions"

George Will, Journalist

"You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes"

Norman Douglas, Writer

"All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield"

Earl Warren, Judge

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place"

Earl Warren, Judge

"In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education"

Earl Warren, Judge

"Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

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