Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
– Robert Frost
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
Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
– Arnold Edinborough
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
– Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
I never let schooling interfere with my education.
– Mark Twain
Education is life itself.
– John Dewey
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
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
– Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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 things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
To repeat what others have said, requires education to challenge it, requires brains.
– Mary Pettibone Poole
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
– Sir Walter Scott
A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.
– Author Unknown
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 sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
– Smiley Blanton
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.
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
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
