Top 100 Education Is Quotes
#1. This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind.
Kinky Friedman
#2. 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
#3. Education is an institution that has been growing without external stressors; eventually the thing will collapse.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#4. Girls' education is a human right. And along with its fundamental justice, it promises so much for the individual, for her family, for society, for all of us.
Ann Cotton
#6. Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.
Michelle Obama
#7. The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
Gavin Newsom
#9. It would be a great advantage to a young man if his early training could eradicate the idea that the world has a great deal to offer him. But the usual result of education is to strenghten this delusion; and our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than from fact.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#10. Education is the best wealth that you can acquire in life. No one can steal it when you are alive.
Debasish Mridha
#11. Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.
John Dewey
#13. The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
Max Beerbohm
#14. The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.
Ken Robinson
#15. To deny someone an education is not just a crime but a sin, because you are denying that person the opportunity to realize who he or she is meant to be.
Firoozeh Dumas
#16. Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
William Glasser
#17. Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration ... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged.
Ernest L. Boyer
#18. Education is a type of money which surmount when expend.
Azhar Sabri
#19. Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
Bobby Scott
#20. The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance
Thomas Jefferson
#21. Real education is a radical process. It thumps you on the head until everything you know makes no sense anymore. Then you run around picking up the pieces of your head and picking them back together. The pieces never go back together in the same way.
Debbie Millman
#22. The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
#23. Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state. Education is discipleship.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#24. We know everything about what you know and how you learn best because we get so much data. And education is the highest-stakes media product in your life. It's infinitely more important than your Facebook friends' status updates or your Google search results because it's your future.
Jose Ferreira
#25. As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is crucial to both freedom and excellence.
Jerry Brown
#26. School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.
Bunker Roy
#27. As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.
Ann Bridge
#28. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
#29. I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of body, mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.
Thomas De Witt Talmage
#32. The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in the student's own hands ... [and] place people on their own path of discovery and invention.
Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
#33. I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.
Annie Besant
#34. Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both.
Susan Jacoby
#35. But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability.
Greg Mortenson
#36. Education is the exchange of one set of prejudices for another.
Marty Rubin
#37. The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
Samuel Johnson
#38. Education is everything - education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.
Ciara
#39. It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts ... it is to teach them to think.
Robert M. Hutchins
#40. Girls' education is no silver bullet. Iran and Saudi Arabia have both educated girls but refused to empower them, so both remain mired in the past. But when a country educates and unleashes women, those educated women often become force multipliers for good.
Nicholas Kristof
#41. The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.
Aristotle.
#42. Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.
Angelique Kidjo
#43. Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.
Sai Baba
#44. The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
Evelyn Waugh
#45. I realized my predicament early in my First Year. We don't say "Freshman" or "Senior" etc. at UVA because Mr. Jefferson felt that education is a lifelong process
Tina Fey
#46. Nations will march towards the apex of their greatness at the same pace as their education. Nations will soar if their education soars; they will regress if it regresses. Nations will fall and sink in darkness if education is corrupted or completely abandoned
Simon Bolivar
#47. Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.
C.S. Lewis
#49. All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there; do that; read; write; rise; lie down - will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age.
William Godwin
#50. The number one way that we can address these long-term challenges of poverty, of education, is to invest in early childhood education.
Julian Castro
#51. Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#52. A good education is the greatest gift you can give yourself or anyone else.
Mahtab Narsimhan
#53. The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.
John Dickey
#54. Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.
Angelique Kidjo
#55. In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.
Loretta Young
#56. I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.
Morgan Freeman
#57. Education is only like good culture,
it changes the size, but not the sort.
Henry Ward Beecher
#59. The question to ask about education is not 'What can I do with it?' That is the wrong question because it concentrates on instrumental values and reduces everything to a useful art. The right question is rather 'What can it do to me?
Arthur F. Holmes
#60. If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.
Jean Piaget
#61. The key to becoming a proactive influence for music education is the development of a "dream list." It is more often referred to as a long-term plan. Do you know what you want your program to look like in the next five years? Ten years? Start now!
John Benham
#62. The greatest danger of traditional education is that learning may remain purely verbal.
Mirra Komarovsky
#63. All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.
Bobby Vinton
#64. I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.
Jenna Bush
#65. The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.
Carl Rogers
#67. Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.
Angelina Jolie
#68. The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
#69. Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.
Margaret Spellings
#70. Education is the only currency which you can spend in every country of the world without losing its value.
Debasish Mridha
#72. A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.
Karl Kraus
#73. 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
William Congreve
#74. Education is the most important thing you can have.
Torrey Smith
#75. One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans
anything except reason.
Thomas Sowell
#76. Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.
John Derbyshire
#78. Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#79. The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.
Alfred North Whitehead
#81. Education is experience and experience is self-reliance.
T.H. White
#82. Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
Ernest Dimnet
#83. I definitely think education is important and both education and sport link really well together. I like to give education and sport the best that I can to see if I can succeed in both.
Jazmin Carlin
#84. A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#86. 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
#87. Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.
Scott Turow
#89. The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong.
Rick Santorum
#90. Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition
John Dewey
#91. Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
#92. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
#93. There is nothing you can do about it. Self-education is the most important thing that can happen to you.
Sunday Adelaja
#94. I've said that education is a living process that can best be compared to agriculture. Gardeners know that they don't make plants grow.
Ken Robinson
#95. The ideal of an "all-round" education is out of date; it has been destroyed by the progress of knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
#96. Education is not about Intellectual Entertainment..It is about continuous improvement, inside and outside!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#97. The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
George Santayana
#99. The older members of my family always demonstrate education as a cure to a disease but I think education is not a cure. It's immunity.
Abdullah Abu Snaineh
#100. Having visited Oxfam-funded school programs in rural communities has made me realise how vital education is to developing countries in bringing people out of poverty and giving them a sense of dignity, self-worth and confidence.
Scarlett Johansson
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