The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
– Russell Green
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
– Bill Beattie
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
– Henry Louis Mencken
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.
– Barbara M. White
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
– Paul Karl Feyerabend
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
– Wendell Phillips
The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education. When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were perhaps very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference...
– Adam Smith
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.
– Laurens Van der Post
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of all education should surely be service to others.
– Cesar E. Chavez
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
– Diogenes
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.
– John Updike
The giving of love is an education in itself.
– Roosevelt, Eleanor
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
– Herbert Spencer
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
– Tryon Edwards
The highest result of education is tolerance.
– Helen Keller
The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.
– Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a 'wholesome personality' are inevitably their own.
– Joel H. Hildebrand
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
– Norman Cousins
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
– Plato
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
– Grayson Kirk
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
– Paul E. Gray
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
– Robert Hutchins
