Education Quotes

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

Robertson Davies

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

Mortimer Adler

Der Lehrer [...] gibt nicht von seiner Weisheit, sondern eher von seinem Glauben und seiner Liebe.

Kahlil Gibran

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

Anne Sullivan

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Derek Bok

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

Kamala Harris

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

David Suzuki

Responsibility educates.

Wendell Phillips

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

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Anatole France

Towery city and branching between towers; Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmed, lark-charmed, rook-racked, river-rounded.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

William Hazlitt

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

Milton Sapirstein

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Karl Kraus

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

John Ciardi

Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.

Duke of Wellington Arthur Welles

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Aristotle

Education is the best provision for old age.

Aristotle

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.

Hannah Arendt