Education Quotes

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Will Rogers

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

Abu Bakr

If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

Claire Weeks

When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.

Ai Weiwei

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Henry David Thoreau

I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

Jenny Eclair

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

Alice Miller

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

Michelle Obama

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

Carter G. Woodson

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

Dominic Cooper

My job is to make sure that if you're a family in Florida, your children can get a good education and you have the opportunity for a job. That's my job and that's what I think about every day.

Rick Scott

The mark of a true MBA is that he is often wrong but seldom in doubt.

Robert Buzzell

Education is the ability to meet life's situations.

Dr. John G. Hibben

Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with book learning, theoretically legitimizes the traditional trash and trains the children to know without understanding and to accept denominations for definitions. Astray in his conceptions, entangled in words, man loses the flair for truth, the taste for nature. What a powerful intellect must you possess, to be suspicious of this moral carbon dioxide and with your head swimming already, to hurl yourself out of it into the fresh air, with which, into the bargain, everyone round is trying to scare you!

Alexander Herzen

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

George Bernard Shaw

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Gail Godwin