946 private quotes tagged education

“It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.” — John F. Kennedy

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“The key to education is the experience of beauty.” — Friedrich Schiller

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

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

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

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

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“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.” — Michel de Montaigne

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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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“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” — C. S. Lewis

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“It is always in season for old men to learn.” — Aeschylus

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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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“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

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“Education is the movement from darkness to light.” — Allan Bloom

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

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“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?” — Erich Fromm

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“Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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