The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. William James on education
Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children. Hillary Clinton on education
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience. Francis Bacon on education
Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world. Malcolm X on education
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. W. E. B. Du Bois on education
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence. Booker T. Washington on education
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. Ray Bradbury on education
I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others. Hillary Clinton on education
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. Evan Esar on education
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values. William Ralph Inge on education
An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate. Charles Stanley on education
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. George Orwell on education
Education is the cheap defense of nations. Edmund Burke on education
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. Thomas Sowell on education
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. Marcus Tullius Cicero on education
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. John W. Gardner on education
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war. Maria Montessori on education
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. Gilbert K. Chesterton on education
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. James A. Baldwin on education
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. Woody Allen on education