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Since I've been in the education business - often the only way to relate to teachers, parents & children - are with words of wisdom. If I could know all the wise books by heart - I would stand a chance at being a better Headmaster. Also for when it comes to my family & friends - that knowledge would always be there to give inspiration & encouragement & tell me who can't use that with their relatives! – Paul. F. Meekin
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run. – Mark Twain
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another. – Oscar Wilde
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue more clever than another. – Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Starting from the primary schools, there must be compulsory ‘Cosmos’ classes throughout the education period. If a man thinks about and understands the universe, he will have wider horizons; he will be much less conceited and much more realistic. – Mehmet Murat ildan
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. – Stephen Vizinczey
Successful education is always a two-way street. – Dirk Van Der Elst, Culture as Given, Culture as Choice
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce. – Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. – Russell Green
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. – Russell Green
The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement. – Albert Einstein
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values. – William Ralph Inge
The 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 thoughts of other men. – Bill Beattie
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. – Henry Louis Mencken
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest. – Barbara M. White
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. – Paul Karl Feyerabend
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. – Wendell Phillips
The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education. When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were perhaps very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference... – Adam Smith
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. – Plato
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves. – Laurens Van der Post
The education of a man is never completed until he dies. – Robert E. Lee
The education of the will is the object of our existence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of all education should surely be service to others. – Cesar E. Chavez
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. – Diogenes
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you. – John Updike

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