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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 on education

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

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Ernest Dimnet on education

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Carl Sagan on education

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
Aeschylus on education

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on education

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope on education

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce on education

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Gilbert K. Chesterton on education

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin on education

Learn to think continentally.
Alexander Hamilton on education

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams on education

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce on education

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
Alan K. Simpson on education

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Desiderius Erasmus on education

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Peter Drucker on education

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. Milne on education

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris on education

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
Charles Barkley on education

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner on education