Education Quotes That Will Teach You A Thing Or Two

Education quotes from people of all walks of life. We've often heard that education is the key, read on to see how some of these education quotes might offer a different perspective.

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."John Dewey

"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."Anatole France

"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality."Beatrix Potter

"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."John Dewey"

"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think." Anne Sullivan

"The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people." Claiborne Pell

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."Nelson Mandela

"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance." Sir Claus Moser

"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth." Diogenes Laertius

"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing."Thomas H. Huxley

"Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices." Laurence J. Peter

"Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations."William James

"There is a brilliant child locked inside every student."Marva Collins

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." Herbert Spencer

"Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't." L. L. Henderson

"I think the world is run by C students."Al McGuire

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."Robert Green Ingersoll

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."Henry B. Adams

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."Albert Einstein

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army." Edward Everett

"A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money."Unknown

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."H.G. Wells

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." Will Durant

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity ofyoung minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."Anatole France

"Education is more than filling a child with facts. It starts with posing questions."D.T. Max

"The highest result of education is tolerance."Helen Keller

"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." Alec Bourne

"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

"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." George Washington Carver

"The Educated look down on the illiterate because they do not know the wonders of knowledge. The Uneducated look down on the illiterate because they have to deal with problems." Edgar Allen Poe

"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?" Erich Fromm

"Education is the transmission of civilization." Will Durant

Hopefully these education quotes have offered some new and interesting perspectives.

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