~ Education Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Robert Green Ingersoll

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Walt Disney

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]There are a hundred thousand useless words in the English language but they come in handy in college football yells.

Anonymous

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.

John Dewey

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, educate people.

Chinese Proverb

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

David Lodge

[MysteRy]

[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