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A child only educated at school is an uneducated child. – George Santayana
A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time. – Fontenelle
A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government! – Mehmet Murat ildan
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. – Leo C. Rosten
An educated man ... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. – Alan Simpson
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. – Ernest Dimnet
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. – John Adams
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Everything has its limit--iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - 1906 – Mark Twain
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. – Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. – Michel de Montaigne
I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. – Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible. – Aristotle
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
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
Much that passes for education ... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least. – David P Gardner
Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. – Calvin Coolidge
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. – Calvin Coolidge
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. – Calvin Coolidge
Only the educated are free. – Epictetus
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first. – John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958)
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. – Norman Cousins
The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. – Alben William Barkley

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