Education Quotes

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

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

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 liv…

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.