Education Quotes
 An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
Clifford Stoll
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 learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Ernest Dimnet
An educated people can be easily governed.
Frederick The Great
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt Disney
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
Abu Bakr
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heinrich Heine
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
It is always in season for old men to learn.
Aeschylus
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
John W. Gardner
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman
Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
Brad Henry
Responsibility educates.
Wendell Phillips
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Robert Anthony
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
Alvin Toffler
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers
The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan
To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Abigail Van Buren
You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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