946 private quotes tagged education

“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” — Mark Twain

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

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“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.” — Plato

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“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” — Albert Einstein

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“Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.” — Ambrose Bierce

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

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“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.” — George Washington

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“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

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“Education is the best provision for old age.” — Aristotle

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“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.” — Anatole France

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“Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.” — Kerry Washington

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“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.” — Carl Sagan

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

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“'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.” — Alexander Pope

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“Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.” — Janet Napolitano

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“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.” — Victor Hugo

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“Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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

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“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“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

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

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“There is no education like adversity.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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