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Education QuotesFamous Education quotes by popular authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Will Rogers, Mark Twain, Aristotle, Charles Caleb Colton and others.
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[highlight-text]Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon
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[highlight-text]Soon learnt soon forgotten.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert
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[highlight-text]Only the educated are free.
Epictetus
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[highlight-text]He listens well who takes notes.
Dante Alighieri
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[highlight-text]All learning has an emotional base.
Plato
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[highlight-text]Learning without thought is labor lost.
Confucius
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[highlight-text]Every educated person is a future enemy.
Martin Bormann
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[highlight-text]One father is more than 100 schoolmasters.
George Herbert
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[highlight-text]An educated people can be easily governed.
Frederick the Great
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[highlight-text]He who opens a school door closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
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[highlight-text]To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.
A. A. Milne
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[highlight-text]Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]The giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]Ignorance the root and the stem of every evil.
Plato
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[highlight-text]Experts often possess more data than judgment.
Colin Powell
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[highlight-text]Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant
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[highlight-text]Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.
Greek Proverb
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[highlight-text]The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]A good education should leave much to be desired.
Alan Gregg
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[highlight-text]Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.
John Wolfenden
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[highlight-text]If you think education is expensive - try ignorance.
Derek Bok
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[highlight-text]Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Will Rogers
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[highlight-text]People will pay more to be entertained than educated.
Johnny Carson
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[highlight-text]Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.
Joseph Joubert
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[highlight-text]By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.
Latin Proverb
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[highlight-text]A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
Horace Mann
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[highlight-text]America is the best half-educated country in the world.
Nicholas Murray Butler
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[highlight-text]We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas Edison
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[highlight-text]'Whom are you?' he asked for he had been to night school.
George Ade
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[highlight-text]The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
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[highlight-text]Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver
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[highlight-text]My husband managed to cram four years of college into five.
Judy Hampton
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[highlight-text]Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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[highlight-text]Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence S. Darrow
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[highlight-text]Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas
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[highlight-text]Learning n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce
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[highlight-text]I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.
Patrick White
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[highlight-text]Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris
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[highlight-text]Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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[highlight-text]What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison
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[highlight-text]Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett
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[highlight-text]Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
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[highlight-text]Bumper sticker: Driver carries no cash - he has a son in college.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
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[highlight-text]Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
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[highlight-text]A one-book man is either a slow learner or an ill-equipped teacher.
Robert Burke
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[highlight-text]You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
Marvin Minsky
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[highlight-text]The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.
Leon Eisenberg
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[highlight-text]Men are born ignorant not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]You can lead a man up to the university but you can't make him think.
Finley Peter Dunne
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[highlight-text]Bumper sticker: My kid beat the heck out of the student of the month.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it from him.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
Laurence J. Peter
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[highlight-text]When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Peter F. Drucker
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[highlight-text]Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
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[highlight-text]The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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[highlight-text]To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin
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[highlight-text]When asked to spell Mississippi the boy asked 'The river or the state?'
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Gail Godwin
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[highlight-text]The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
Antisthenes
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[highlight-text]Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner
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[highlight-text]He couldn't get into Harvard even if he had the dean's wife at gunpoint.
Dave Barry
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[highlight-text]Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter
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[highlight-text]A gentleman need not know Latin but he should at least have forgotten it.
Brander Matthews
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[highlight-text]Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Martin Henry Fischer
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[highlight-text]Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner
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[highlight-text]Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
James Baldwin
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[highlight-text]Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
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[highlight-text]The Jews have always been students and their greatest study is themselves.
Albert Goldman
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[highlight-text]The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
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[highlight-text]One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.
Charles William Eliot
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[highlight-text]We are living in a world where what we earn is a function of what we learn.
Bill Clinton
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[highlight-text]She's an honor student. She's always saying 'Yes Your Honor. No Your Honor.'
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]A kindergarten teacher is a woman who knows how to make little things count.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
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[highlight-text]The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato
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[highlight-text]History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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[highlight-text]I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well at least I ain't no educated fool.
Leon Spinks
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[highlight-text]To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
Edith Hamilton
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[highlight-text]Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.
Alfred North Whitehead
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[highlight-text]Do you know the difference between a kayak and a college student? A kayak tips.
Chad Morgan
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[highlight-text]The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Letter home from college boy: 'There are 370 boys here - I wish there were 369.'
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Whenever I'm asked what college I attended I'm tempted to reply Thornton Wilder'.
Garson Kanin
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[highlight-text]I am always doing that which I can not do in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
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[highlight-text]Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Albert Einstein
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[highlight-text]Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay than they think.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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[highlight-text]A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
John Ciardi
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[highlight-text]Thus education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope
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[highlight-text]'Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope
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[highlight-text]The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers
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[highlight-text]If you want to get laid go to college but if you want an education go to the library.
Frank Zappa
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[highlight-text]Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.
Charles Caleb Colton
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[highlight-text]Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Maria Mitchell
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[highlight-text]Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Robert Frost
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[highlight-text]Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]In the first place God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.
Ty Cobb
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[highlight-text]The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
Ambrose Bierce
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[highlight-text]Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me and I'll understand.
Native American Saying
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[highlight-text]It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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[highlight-text]History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
Kurt Vonnegut
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[highlight-text]Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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[highlight-text]Education without values as useful as it is seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]If you educate a man you educate a person but if you educate a woman you educate a family.
Rudy Manikan
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[highlight-text]I went to a high school that was so dangerous the school newspaper had an obituary column.
Rocky Ray
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[highlight-text]The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
Cicero
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[highlight-text]In the world today a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
Walter Annenberg
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[highlight-text]The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
J. Frank Dobie
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[highlight-text]We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
Northrop Frye
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[highlight-text]The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins
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[highlight-text]Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. Hendren
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[highlight-text]The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Jacques Barzun
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[highlight-text]He who learns but does not think is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius
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[highlight-text]I read Shakespeare and the Bible and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead
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[highlight-text]I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.
Joan Welsh
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[highlight-text]There is nothing so stupid as an educated man if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
Will Rogers
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[highlight-text]I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Robert Frost
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[highlight-text]There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will Rogers
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[highlight-text]When there are two PhD's in a developing country one is Head of State and the other is in exile.
Lord Samuel
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[highlight-text]America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Will Rogers
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[highlight-text]It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.
Herbert V. Prochnow
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[highlight-text]As every divided kingdom falls so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Leonardo da Vinci
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[highlight-text]If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heinrich Heine
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[highlight-text]There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living And the other how to live.
John Adams
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[highlight-text]It is a greater work to educate a child in the true and larger sense of the word than to rule a state.
William Ellery Channing
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[highlight-text]IReal education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound
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[highlight-text]The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan
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[highlight-text]How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Alexandre Dumas
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[highlight-text]The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
Enid Bagnold
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[highlight-text]It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
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[highlight-text]Education n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
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[highlight-text]Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
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[highlight-text]Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions - everyone but a school bus driver.
Laurence J. Peter
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[highlight-text]Do you think your boy will forget all he learned in college? 'I hope so. He can't make a living drinking.'
Larry Wilde
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[highlight-text]The freshmen bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out so it accumulates through the years.
A. Lawrence Lowell
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[highlight-text]Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Brooks Adams
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[highlight-text]If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village; if you would know and not be known live in a city.
Charles Caleb Colton
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[highlight-text]Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
Leon Trotsky
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[highlight-text]The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]You can get help from teachers but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself sitting alone in a room.
Theodor Seuss Geisel
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[highlight-text]Boy handing over his report card: Of course I seem stupid to my teachers . . . they're all college graduates.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.
Heinrich Heine
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[highlight-text]We didn't feel so good when we took our son to college and saw a sign on the liquor store - Back to School Sale.
Brian Morgan
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[highlight-text]It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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[highlight-text]If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson
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[highlight-text]I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt Disney
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[highlight-text]There are a hundred thousand useless words in the English language but they come in handy in college football yells.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Learning has been [a] great loser by being shut up in colleges and cells and secluded from the world and good company.
David Hume
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[highlight-text]A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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[highlight-text]Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
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[highlight-text]When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, educate people.
Chinese Proverb
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[highlight-text]Some men are graduated from college cum laude some are graduated summa cum laude and some are graduated mirabile dictu.
William Howard Taft
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[highlight-text]Let the schools teach the nobility of labour and the beauty of human service: but the superstitions of ages past? Never!
Peter Cooper
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[highlight-text]Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Charles Caleb Colton
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[highlight-text]Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
David Lodge
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[highlight-text]Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm
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[highlight-text]He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]Last words when sending our boy to college: 'If there's anything you want call us and we'll show you how to live without it.'
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]It was going all wrong at my college interview until I nonchalantly asked 'Do you need any large donations for new buildings?'
Todd Anderson
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.
David T. Kearns
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[highlight-text]I won't say ours was a tough school but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'What I'm Going to Be if I Grow Up.'
Lenny Bruce
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[highlight-text]Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
Bill Gates
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[highlight-text]The world is governed more by appearances than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster
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[highlight-text]Education today more than ever before must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.
James Mason Wood
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[highlight-text]We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]Arrogance pedantry and dogmatism are the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
Henry S. Canby
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[highlight-text]I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.
Clark Kerr
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[highlight-text]Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
Clarence Day
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[highlight-text]One little six-year-old took home a note saying he need not come to school since he was 'too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas Edison.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]You could do anything in your room at college. You could smoke pot live in a coed dorm have a girl. But you couldn't have a . . . hot plate!
Jay Leno
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[highlight-text]On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.
Malcolm Bradbury
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[highlight-text]Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.
Hosea Ballou
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[highlight-text]There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt Whitman
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[highlight-text]And if the student finds that this is not to his taste well that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.
Flannery O'Connor
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[highlight-text]If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards.
Rudyard Kipling
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[highlight-text]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.
Malcolm Forbes
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]I believe one of the reasons so many do not get a higher education is the fear of their parents that they will lose more morally than they will receive mentally.
William Jennings Bryan
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[highlight-text]Graduation Speech: You'll have to excuse me if I cry. I've been a little teary-eyed all week; the sadness the joy . . . the fact that I'm off my parents' payroll.
Melissa Amernick
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[highlight-text]I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
Al McGuire
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[highlight-text]The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop all monsters and dust with everything priced above its proper value.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]From kindergarten to graduation I went to public schools and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
Dick Cheney
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?
David Wood
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[highlight-text]An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false misleading fictitious mendacious - just dead wrong.
Russell Baker
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[highlight-text]It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
T. S. Eliot
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[highlight-text]John Milton called his school Christ College 'a stony-hearted stepmother'. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
John W. Gardner
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[highlight-text]The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal and no liberal education which is not technical.
Alfred North Whitehead
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[highlight-text]There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
A. E. Wiggan
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[highlight-text]No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
T. S. Eliot
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[highlight-text]It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
Carl Sagan
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[highlight-text]The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers
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[highlight-text]To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
Muriel Spark
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[highlight-text]Passing the SAT: My personal theory is that it has to do with how much money you send them in the mail. I think the amounts they tell you to send are actually just suggested minimum donations - if you get my drift.
Dave Barry
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[highlight-text]Beware of the man who works hard to learn something learns it and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Kurt Vonnegut
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[highlight-text]Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
Jesse Jackson
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[highlight-text]If I ran a school I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them and then told me what they learned from them.
Buckminster Fuller
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[highlight-text]Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts ideas and theories a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.
Raymond Queneau
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[highlight-text]One 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 a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung
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[highlight-text]While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers poor urban families just want the best education for their children who will certainly need it to function in our high-tech and advanced society.
Clarence Thomas
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[highlight-text]There are some things which cannot be learned quickly and time which is all we have must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.
Ernest Hemingway
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[highlight-text]Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
Thomas Henry Huxley
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[highlight-text]Surely the shortest commencement address in history - and for me one of the most memorable - was that of Dr. Harold E. Hyde President of New Hampshire's Plymouth State College. He reduced his message to the graduating class to these three ideals: 'Know yourself- Socrates. Control yourself- Cicero; Give yourself - Christ.'
Walter T. Tatara
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[highlight-text]We should not value education as a means to prosperity but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition by forcing the student to stand back from it.
Roger Scruton