1,009 Quotes Regarding Education


Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.
Francis Bacon

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
Malcolm X

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

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

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

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

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
William Ralph Inge

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

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
George Orwell

Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Edmund Burke

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
Thomas Sowell

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori

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

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

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody Allen

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

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