“Nature has always had more force than education.”
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“The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.”
“The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.”
“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”
“Education is the cheap defense of nations.”
“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”
“Segregation has no place in the education system.”
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”
“English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.”
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
“We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.”
“We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.”
“Education is the art of making man ethical.”
“It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.”
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
“Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.”
“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.”
“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.”
“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”
“The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.”
“Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.”
“Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.”
“Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.”