Education Quotes

Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.

Jonathan Kozol

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself indeed, it seems to execute itself.

Rutherford B. Hayes

No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.

David Baker

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

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Michel de Montaigne

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

Susan B. Anthony

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.

Louisa May Alcott

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Albert Einstein

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

Mahatma Gandhi

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

C. S. Lewis

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

Ivan Illich

University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable.

Sir Peter Imbert

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

Ivan Illich

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

James B. Stockdale

I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

Mahatma Gandhi

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

John Sterling

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Alec Bourne

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.

Amber Tamblyn

What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

Horatio Bottomley

In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of religion, sex, and money. Without a basic knowledge of these three primary facts in a normal human being's life --subjects which stir the emotions, create events and opportunities, and if they do not wholly decide must greatly influence an individual's personality --no human being's education can have a safe foundation.

Phyllis Bottome