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
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.
– Tom Clancy, "The Teeth Of The Tiger" -- page 180
Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other.
– Donald G. Smith
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income -- which he then spends sending his son to college.
– Bill Vaughan
Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.
– Evan Edgar
Education a debt due from present to future generations.
– George Peabody
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
– Horace Mann
Education and knowledge are the only asset that you can not loose and no one can take it away from you (From the wisdom of my late father Mustapha)
– Abderrahman Hassi
Education and knowledge are the only asset that you can not loose and no one can take it away from you (From the wisdom of my late grandmother Zahra Belfkih)
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
– Aristotle
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
– Thomas Fuller
Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.
– Geoffrey Holder
Education has for its object the formation of character.
– Herbert Spencer
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
– G. M. Trevelyan
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
– Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun-Times, November 5, 2001
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
– Edward Everett Hale
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
– Joseph Addison
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.
– Robert Hutchins
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
– Laurence J. Peter
