The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
– G.K. Chesterton
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
– James R. Angell
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!
– Sonjay Anand
The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.
– Otto Kleppner
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
– Maya Angelou
The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
– Bishop Creighton
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
– Barnaby C. Keeney
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
– R. D. Hitchcock
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
– Emerson
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
– William John Bennett
The so-called method of co-education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training.
– Pope Pius XI
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
– Samuel Johnson
The term "learning disability" has appeal because it implies a specific neurological condition for which no one can be held particularly responsible, and yet it escapes the stigma of mental retardation. There is no implication of neglect, emotional disturbance, or improper training or education, nor does it imply a lack of motivation on the part of the child. For these cosmetic reasons, it is a rather nice term to have around.
– U. S. Government Study On The Labeling Of Children
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
– Jacques Martin Barzun
The test and use of a man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
– Carl Barzun
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.
– Anna James
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
– John W. Gardner
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
– Plutarch
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
– William James
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
– Will Rogers
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
– George Santayana
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
– Aleister Crowley
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
– Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938