1,009 Quotes Regarding Education


Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
John Ruskin

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
John Ruskin

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
Norman Cousins

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
P. J. O'Rourke

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
Ernest Istook

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
Thomas Moore

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch

The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.
John Ruskin

History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
Jean Piaget

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.
Salma Hayek

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
Horace

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
John Dewey

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
Marshall McLuhan

Segregation has no place in the education system.
Richard Dawkins

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
Desmond Tutu

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
Matthew Henry