Education Quotes - page 5

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education. (Paul Erdős)
Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use. View quote
John Ruskin
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and, however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. View quote
William Godwin
My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education. View quote
Gary Becker
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. View quote
Dylan Thomas
Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars. View quote
Stephen Fry
Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me, the ability to think in quotations. View quote
Margaret Drabble
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. View quote
Pete Seeger
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers. (Gwendolyn Brooks)
Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence. View quote
Wynton Marsalis
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. View quote
James Baldwin
Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack. View quote
Max Brooks
There are three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer. Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions. View quote
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan. View quote
Huey Long
Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person. View quote
Georg Brandes
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education. View quote
John Buchan
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. View quote
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. (Will Durant)
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. View quote
Jane Austen
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. View quote
Jane Austen
I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood. When somebody called me a 'dirty little Guinea', there was only one thing to do-break his head. When I got older, I realized that you shouldn't do it that way. I realized that you've got to do it through education. Children are not to blame. It is the parents. How can a child know whether his playmate is an Italian, a Jew or Irish, unless the parents have discussed it in the privacy of their homes. View quote
Frank Sinatra
But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err. View quote
Kurt Gödel