All 78,476 Quotes


Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John Locke on education

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Gilbert K. Chesterton on education

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Gilbert K. Chesterton on education

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
Chuck Palahniuk on education

There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli on education

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley on education

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
John Ruskin on education

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
James Madison on education

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on education

Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Harry S. Truman on education

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on education

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Noam Chomsky on education

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
Maria Montessori on education

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin on education

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Horace Mann on education

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli on education

We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau on education

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
Lee Iacocca on education

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Robert E. Lee on education

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John Ruskin on education