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Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit in EDUCATION
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter in EDUCATION
The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done -- men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.
Jean Piaget in EDUCATION
Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the
Plato in EDUCATION
Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.
Sylvia Porter in EDUCATION
Formal education is but an incident in the lifetime of an individual. Most of us who have given the subject any study have come to realize that education is a continuous process ending only when ambition comes to a halt.
R. I. Rees in EDUCATION
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 in EDUCATION
No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.
Lee Rudolph in EDUCATION
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
Robert C. Savage in EDUCATION
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of
Felix E. Schelling in EDUCATION
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
George Bernard Shaw in EDUCATION
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner in EDUCATION
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
Logan Pearsall Smith in EDUCATION
An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all
Socrates in EDUCATION
Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agre
Socrates in EDUCATION
A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.
James B. Stockdale in EDUCATION
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result,
Harriet Beecher Stowe in EDUCATION
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, ca
Thomas Szasz in EDUCATION
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Henry David Thoreau in EDUCATION
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Henry David Thoreau in EDUCATION
There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
Alexis De Tocqueville in EDUCATION
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain in EDUCATION
A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.
Source Unknown in EDUCATION
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.
Source Unknown in EDUCATION
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe in EDUCATION
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
Remy De Gourmont in EDUCATION
America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. B
Billy Graham in EDUCATION
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
Paul E. Gray in EDUCATION
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 in EDUCATION
Education is the art of making man ethical.
Georg Hegel in EDUCATION
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