Education is not a preparation for life, education is life itself.
John DeweyMusic has a power of forming the character and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
AristotleI must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on I go to the library and read a good book.
Groucho MarxI have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark TwainEducation's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm ForbesCharacter is the most precious gift of education.
Sai BabaFormal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim RohnEducation is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar WildeGenius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin FranklinEducation: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
Mark TwainNothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
Mahatma GandhiEach of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
Oscar WildeExperience, travel – these are as education in themselves.
EuripidesThere is no education like adversity.
Benjamin DisraeliThere should not be any trace of dislike or distrust on the score of nationality language, caste, economic status, scholarship, age or sex.
Sai BabaThe paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious ,one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James Arthur BaldwinTo penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
Thomas JeffersonEducation is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOne looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl JungEducation is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
Lyndon B. JohnsonMen are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand RussellNo one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
Louis L'AmourEducation is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert FrostThe first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
John RuskinTo accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
Epictetus'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
William CongreveHis lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody AllenThe main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
Oliver Wendell HolmesEducation forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Alexander PopeSometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it you're gonna be rewarded.
Jimi HendrixEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson MandelaRewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
ZhuangziAn education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
Anatole FranceIf you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert EinsteinSoap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark TwainTo make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John RuskinAmerican business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees, who are educated enough, that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.
Dave BarryFreedom can occur only through education.
Friedrich SchillerNatural ability, without education, has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe education of women is the best way to save the environment.
E. O. WilsonEducation is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington CarverEnlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas JeffersonI add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius CiceroDo I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
Woody AllenEducation, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
John DeweyA child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. KennedyI believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers, by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.
John DeweyOur success, educationally, industrially and politically, is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
Marcus GarveyThe great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George SantayanaSometimes reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
Alice WalkerGod made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Mark TwainI doubt whether classical education ever has been, or can be successfully carried out, without corporal punishment.
George OrwellModern cynics and skeptics see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage, than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John F. KennedyCauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark TwainThe child who desires education will be bettered by it, the child who dislikes it disgraced.
John RuskinMy education was interrupted only by my schooling
Winston ChurchillWe are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand RussellDemocracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy therefore is education.
Franklin D. RooseveltBy giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar WildeIt is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green IngersollIt is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
Winston ChurchillThe task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. LewisSometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision.
Kobe BryantEducation is the investment our generation makes in the future.
Mitt RomneyThe critic has to educate the public, the artist has to educate the critic.
Oscar WildePositive rights are the right to shelter the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are I would call them more properly political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
P. J. O'RourkeSex education may be a good idea in the schools but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
Bill CosbyThe American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self and, at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
Mitt RomneyThe aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
John DeweyEducation is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness, and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.
John DeweyHarvard University, according to the directory of the American Society of Colleges and Universities, is a "type of weevil."
Dave BarryThe aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.
John Dewey