Education Quotes

You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much.

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The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education.

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Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.

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I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

Yakov Smirnoff

Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.

Peter Singer

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Aristotle

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

Philip K. Dick

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

Plato

My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.

Susie Bright

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Alexander Pope

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

Phillip E. Johnson

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

Estelle Morris

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

Mark Twain

A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.

Thomas Ehrlich

I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

Jimmy Smits