Quotes About Education

The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.  ~ Plato


Education is hanging around until you've caught on.  ~ Robert Frost


Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.  ~ C.S. Lewis


The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.  ~ George Santayana


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


Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.  ~ Albert Einstein


Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.  ~ Socrates


Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.  ~ Aristotle


Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.  ~ William Butler Yeats


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


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 not preparation for life; education is life itself.  ~ John Dewey


The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.  ~ Aristotle


We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open mind.  ~ Malcolm Forbes


Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


I forgot what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.  ~ Patrick White


Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.  ~ Aristotle


Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.  ~ Zora Neale Hurston


Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.  ~ Mark Twain


Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a living rather than how to make a life.  ~ Mary Hatwood Fatrell


Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.  ~ Thomas Jefferson


I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.  ~ Anton Chekhov


The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.  ~ Aristotle


All learning has an emotional base.  ~ Plato


Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.  ~ Maria Montessori


Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.  ~ Greek proverb


Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.  ~ Mark Twain


Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.  ~ Aristotle


Learning makes a man fit company for himself.  ~ Thomas Fuller


Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.  ~ Thomas Jefferson


A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.  ~ George Santayana


Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.  ~ Martin Luther King Jr.


An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.  ~ Plato


Wit is educated insolence.  ~ Aristotle


Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.  ~ Arnold Edinborough


Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.  ~ Thomas Jefferson


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


It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.  ~ Aristotle


I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.  ~ Mark Twain


There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.  ~ Will Rogers


Education should be gentleand stern, not cold and lax.  ~ Joseph Joubert


Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


Education is the best provision for old age.  ~ Aristotle


The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.  ~ John Ruskin


Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.  ~ Margaret Mead


Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.  ~ Albert Einstein


A good education should leave much to be desired.  ~ Alan Gregg


Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.  ~ Muriel Spark


Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.  ~ Plato


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


Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.  ~ Mark Twain


If you think education is expensive - try ingnorance.  ~ Derek Bok


I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power.  ~ Thomas Jefferson


Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.  ~ Plato