No man who worships education has got the best out of education....

Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. ~G.K. Chesterton

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. ~Bill Beattie

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, Ronald D. Fuchs, ed.

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. ~Author Unknown

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~Robert G. Ingersoll

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~G.M. Trevelyan

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ~A.A. Milne

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. ~Abraham Flexner

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward Everett

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. ~Ezra Pound

Education should be exercise; it has become massage. ~Martin H. Fischer

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. ~Mark Twain

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~Will Durant

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

Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs. ~Martin H. Fischer

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. ~William Haley

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. ~Tallulah Bankhead

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ~George Santayana Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~Malcolm S. Forbes

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. ~R. Baker

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ~Henry David Thoreau

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. ~Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist," 1890

Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war on education. If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics. ~Leighann Lord

What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals. ~Robert Brault, [Link]

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. ~Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. ~Cornelius Vanderbilt

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ~Aristotle

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

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

~Michel de Montaigne

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~Robert Frost

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abb Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. ~Ambrose Bierce,The Devil's Dictionary

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know. ~William R. Inge

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ~Peter Drucker

If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous. ~Desmond Bagley

Education is the movement from darkness to light. ~Allan Bloom

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. ~John W. Gardner

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. ~Will Rogers

Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler Yeats

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. ~Martin H. Fischer

With just enough learning to misquote. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers"

There is only one Education, and it has only one goal: the freedom of the mind. Anything that needs an adjective, be it civics education, or socialist education, or Christian education, or whatever-you-like education, is not education, and it has some different goal. The very existence of modified "educations" is testimony to the fact that their proponents cannot bring about what they want in a mind that is free. An "education" that cannot do its work in a free mind, and so must "teach" by homily and precept in the

service of these feelings and attitudes and beliefs rather than those, is pure and unmistakable tyranny. ~Richard Mitchell,The Underground Grammarian, September 1982

The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. ~Lewis Carroll

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~Roger Lewin

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing. ~Richard Yates

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. ~Al McGuire

The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils. ~Martin H. Fischer

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. ~Brander Matthews

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. ~Heinrich Heine

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day." ~Peter Brodie

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life. ~Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse, 1883

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. ~John Maynard Keynes

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. ~Daniel J. Boorstin, Democracy and Its Discontents

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats. ~Martin H. Fischer

It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it. ~Finley Peter Dunne

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ~Pete Seeger

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. ~Albert Edward Wiggam

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. ~George Santayana

The founding fathers... provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you. ~John Updike, The Centaur, 1963

You can get all A's and still flunk life. ~Walker Percy

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 living. ~Will Rogers

My parents told me, "Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving." I tell my daughters, "Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job." ~Thomas L. Friedman

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. ~George Eliot

Education is the transmission of civilization. ~Ariel and Will Durant

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ~Bishop Mandell Creighton

If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twentyfour hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality. ~Ivan Stang, High Weirdness By Mail The bad teacher's words fall on his pupils like harsh rain; the good teacher's, as gently as dew. Talmud: Ta'anith 7b Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled. Wu Ting-Fang

What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need. Elbert Hubbard Truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but, in the end, there it is. Sir Winston Churchill Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. Robert Heinlein Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. James 3:1 In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less. Lee Iacocca I am a teacher! What I do and say are being absorbed by young minds who will echo these images across the ages. My lessons will be immortal, affecting people yet unborn, people I will never see or know. The future of the world is in my classroom today, a future with the potential for good or bad. The pliable minds of tomorrow's leaders will be molded either artistically or grotesquely by what I do. Several future presidents are learning from me today; so are the great writers of the next decades, and so are all the so-called ordinary people who will make the decisions in a democracy. I must never forget these same young people could be the thieves or murderers of the future. Only a teacher? Thank God I have a calling to the greatest profession of all! I must be vigilant every day lest I lose one fragile opportunity to improve tomorrow. Ivan Welton Fitzwater No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education, no man's education is complete. G. K. Chesterton If you say you understand something, then you can explain what you understand to others. Anything short of that is deception, not understanding. Education, above all, should not be about fostering deception. In the same vein, anything not understood in more than one way is not understood at all. R. J. Kizlik

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. Lee Iacocca Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. Bob Talbert Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill is daily spun, But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric. Edna St. Vincent Millay "Huntsman, What Quarry?" 1939 Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Susan B. Anthony Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach. Jan Amos Comnius Everything depends upon the quality of experience . . . just as no man lives or dies to himself, so no experience lives and dies to itself. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience. The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences. John Dewey, 1938 When I think about all the crap I learned in high school . . . . . . . . it's a wonder I can think at all. Paul Simon Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it. Soren Kierkegaard

The desire to know is far more important than achievement and/or performance measures. Caine & Caine It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and [Link] Einstein 1940 The teacher is one who made two ideas grow where only one grew before. Elbert Hubbard Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students. Alfie Kohn It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. Albert Einstein Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment. Joseph Roux Courses in education given at...teachers' colleges have traditionally been used as a substitute for genuine scholarship. In my opinion, much of the so-called science of "education" was invented as a necessary mechanism for enabling semi-educated people to act as tolerable teachers. Sloan Wilson I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. Helen Keller If the student-written text is to go beyond the stories about generals and millionaires and queens and kings, teachers have to help their students, in one way or other, to discover and record the voices of the common men and women who reflect the real life out of which all history is made. This is especially the case in writing about minorities, as well as about women.

Our tendency is to attempt to make up for the errors of the past by listing (and praising) as many notable blacks, or women, as we can possibly "collect"--in order, it seems, to struggle back in kind against all of those white male Anglo-Saxon figures who now dominate the school curricula. We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary [Link] Kozol On Being a Teacher There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. --Ralph Waldo Emerson The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time. --Jiddu Krishnamurti We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education --Jean-Jacques Rousseau (17121778) Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. --Lee Iacocca Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests. --Brian Tracy The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. --Jacques Martin Barzun If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. --Jim Rohn A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure. --Bernard Iddings Bell Chaplain, University of Chicago

Label on a child's Superman costume: Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly. --Unknown The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. --Robert Maynard Hutchins Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. --B. F. Skinner Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race --Calvin Coolidge The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all. --Aung San Suu Kyi Nobel Peace Prize Laureate leader of Burma's democracy movement It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought--that is to be educated. --Edith Hamilton If I were asked to enumerate ten educational stupidities, the giving of grades would head the list... If I can't give a child a better reason for studying than a grade on a report card, I ought to lock my desk and go home and stay there. --Dorothy De Zouche I have never let my schooling interfere with my education --Mark Twain Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. --Robert Frost I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught. --Sir Winston Churchill

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. --Chinese proverb Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. --Will Durant Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. --Pete Seeger Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -Malcolm Forbes He who dares to teach must never cease to learn. --Richard Henry Dann There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live. --John Adams The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both. --Zen Buddhist Text Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. --Clarence Thomas Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. --William Butler Yeats Education is not a form of entertainment, but a means of empowering people to take control of their lives. --Unknown Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. --Pete Seeger A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. --Albert Einstein

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character. -Hosea Ballou It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time -- for we are bound by that -- but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time. T.S. Eliot Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn. Greek Proverb What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. Joseph Addison What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection. Ralph Waldo Emerson If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and will never be. Thomas Jefferson Practice is the best of all instructors. Publilius Syrus Education is the transmission of civilization. Will Durant It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state. William Ellery Channing Education is more than a luxury; it is a responsibility that society owes to itself. Robin Cook The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power. Charles W. Eliot

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education. John W. Gardner Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King, Jr. I am still learning. Michelangelo Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which which neither freedom nor justice can be maintained. James A. Garfield Education, like the mass of our age's inventions, is after all, only a tool; everything depends upon the workman who uses it The Simple Life Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. Chinese Saying Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual. J.P Richter Education should consist of a series of enchantments, each raising the individual to a higher level of awareness, understanding, and kinship with all living things. Author Unknown When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, 'As much as the living are to the dead.' Diogenes Laetius Upon the education of the people of this country, the fate of this country depends. Benjamin Disraeli Education is the best provision for old age. Aristotle