1,009 Quotes Regarding Education


The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. Kennedy

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

The doer alone learneth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Horace Mann

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Robert Frost

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt Disney

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

Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Will Rogers

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Plato

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
Clifford Stoll

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Russell Baker

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
Alvin Toffler

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
John W. Gardner

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton