Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
– Albert Wiggam
It breaks immortality's neck. Contemplates crime and therefore halts it; It humbles barbarous nations, And makes of savages, champions! ("Por La Education")
– Dr. Jose P. Rizal
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?
– Alan Perlis
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
– Bertrand Russell
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
– Publilius Syrus
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.
– Vartan Gregorian
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_.
– Plato, from a footnote in The Colloquy of Monos and Una, Edgar Allen Poe
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
– Josephine Tey
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
– John F. Kennedy
Loneliness is a good education. You learn the things no crowds can teach and you discover the things no crowds can give.
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Make walks in the nights to benefit from the education of silence!
Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
– J. D. Salinger
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.
– Thomas Sowell
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
Nagging questions remain Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter.
– Henry Anatole Grunwald
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
– Cicero
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature is a good teacher; he who can read the nature well, he can learn sagacious things belong to life from it. Once you stepped in the nature, your philosophical education starts. A black vulture teaches you many things; a bear teaches you many things; a bird making its nest and a rosehip which resists being frozen, they teach you many things!
Next in importance to Freedom and Justice is popular education, without which neither Freedom nor Justice can be permanently maintained.
– James Abram Garfield
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
– Plato
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
– Emma Goldman
