A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.
– Author Unknown
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
– George Bernard Shaw
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
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
– Theodore Roosevelt
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
– Albert Einstein
A school cannot exist as a permanent form of education. It can only exist until the student discovers that they can learn more themselves from the real world. From that moment on the majority always look for the most promising place the highest wisdom outside of school, with the result of schooling always collapsing over lifes education.
– Paul. F. Meekin
A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
– Smiley Blanton
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
– John Lubbock
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
– Sir Walter Scott
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in education these days arises, not from defects in the students,teachers or schools, not from want of equipment or technology, but from the downright ignorance of the nature of honor, virtue and kindness. Sound education... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection of childhood, on unselfish performance of teachers and on accountability and reliability.
America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
– Evan Esar
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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.
– Anatole France
An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
– Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
– Charles F. Kettering
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
– Alan Simpson
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans- unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
– Karl Rove, March 19, 2001
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
– Alfred Whitney
Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for So you can make a bigger salary than other people
– Beah Richards
By nature all men are alike, but by education very different.
– Chinese
By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes. As an essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons his graphic efforts and relies almost entirely on words. Language has first spoilt drawing and then swallowed it up completely.
– Karl Buhler, 1930
Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.
– Mark Twain
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
– Henry Steele Commager
