Quotes about education

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“State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson learned by Hitler and many others, and it has been pursued to this day.”

“Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.”

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

“Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.”

“The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)”

“If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.”

“I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.”

“Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.”

“Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.”

“Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.”

“The most important thing about education is appetite.”

“Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.”

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”

“Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.”

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."

(, July 20, 2003)”

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

“We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.”

“The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.”

“Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.”

“I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?”

“Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.”

“My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.”

“An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.”

“We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.”

“Thank goodness my education was neglected.”

“I said I liked being half-educated; you were so much more surprised at everything when you were ignorant.”

“There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.”

“I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.”

“Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.”

“I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.”

“I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.”

“All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.”

“Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.”

“Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.”

“The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.”

“Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.”

“One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.”

“The most important part of education — to teach the meaning of to know”

“Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.”

“Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.”

“If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.”

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”

“I am self-educated from genre books.”

“No wonder studies show that women's intellectual self-esteem tends to go down as years of education go up. We have been studying our own absence.”

“Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.”

“[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).”

“The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.”

“The very reason for nature's existence is for the education of the soul.”

“How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?"
"They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.”

“We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.”

“But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.”

“Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.”

“We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.”

“Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.”

“Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace”

“One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.”

“To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.”

“I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.”

“According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.”

“Your education or your life, Claire. I'd rather you be alive and a little bit dumber.”

“Oh my God, I thought. I’m rooming with the Sydney Sage of re-education.”

“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”

“The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.”

“All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.”

“There is no fool like an educated fool…”

“A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.”

“An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.”

“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.”

“By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.”

“It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.”

“Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve
got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up
the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money
gives out.”

“[Education] has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”

“Education isn't just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul.”

“So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every person a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them!”

“Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.”

“There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.”

“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”

“I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.”

“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.”

“What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!”

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”

“Education… is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,… by praise, but above all -- by example.”

“To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.”

“People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices”

“Segregation shaped me; education liberated me.”

“Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.”

“Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.”

“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.”

“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.”

“And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer.”

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

“Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.”

“The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me.”

“My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.”

“People think of education as something they can finish.”

“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”

“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.”

“Suddenly it was obvious to Connor why they don't teach it. Once education was restructured and corporatized, they didn't want kids knowing how close they came to toppling the government. They didn't want kids to know how much power they really had.”

“Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me; I have a college education. I’m not destitute. I'm living like this by choice.”