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Education Quotes

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Education is the path to revelation. Teach the alphabet and you sow the seeds of rebellion. The free thinker travels light along the road to truth.

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young.

We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.

Education is the Best Friend. An Educated Person is Respected Everywhere. Education beats the Beauty and the Youth.

Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villagers.

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

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

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

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.