Education Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

265 Education Quotes
“Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.”
Martin H. Fischer Quotes
“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”
Anatole France Quotes
“We learn simply by the exposure of living. 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 Quotes
“They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
“The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.”
Paul E. Gray Quotes
“Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.”
Sir William Haley Quotes
“Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.”
John A. Hannah Quotes
“Education is the ability to meet life's situations.”
Dr. John G. Hibben Quotes
“People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.”
John Holt Quotes
“Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.”
Francis Keppel Quotes
“Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.”
Karl Kraus Quotes
“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.”
Timothy Leary Quotes
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
C. S. Lewis Quotes
“A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.”
Sir John Lubbock Quotes
“In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.”
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
“The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.”
Wendell Phillips Quotes
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
Carl Rogers Quotes
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
Jim Rohn Quotes
“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
“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 Quotes
“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.”
John Ruskin Quotes
“Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.”
Robert C. Savage Quotes
“Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.”
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“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.”
Charles Schulz Quotes