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Quotes about Education
Education is a chest of tools. -Herbert Kaufman
Education is hanging on until you've caught on. -Robert Frost
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein
The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research; the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching; and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service. -James A. Perkins
To learn and never be filled
is wisdom
To teach and never be weary
is love
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. -Edward Everett
If you have knowledge,
Let others light their candle with it
-WInston Churchill
Only the educated are free. -Epictetus
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment
Of our intelligence by the means of language.
We must see that every child has equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize the unique potential he or she possesses. -John Fischer
The purpose of education is to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. -Albert Einstein
Education is learning what you didn't know you didn't know. -Daniel J. Boorstin
Education takes place in the combination of the home, the community, the school, and the receptive mind. -Harry Edwards
A degree is not of education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in education. -Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Much that passes for education is not education at all, but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least. -David P. Gardner
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information you get. -William Feather
Education should convert the mind into a living fountain and not a reservoir. -John M. Mason
Via ovicipitum dura est. The way of the egghead is hard. -Adlai E. Stevenson
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view. -Robert M. Hutchins
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. -Robert Frost
Education is a matter of building bridges. -Ralph Ellison
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce. -Virginia Gildersleeve
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer-into selflessness which links us with all humanity. -Nancy Astor
Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself. What better book can there be than the book of humanity. -Mohandas Gandhi
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest. -Barbara M. White
Education is the seeing of things in the working. -Thomas Alva Edison
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -B. F. Skinner
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -Derek Bok
What sculpure is to a block of marble, knowledge is to the soul. Joseph Addison
Education is not preparation for life,
Education is life itself.
John Dewey
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein.
Real learing comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. J Krishnamurti
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