Education Quotes
I’ve done “education quotes” posts or pages before, but there’s so many good ones, that I’m doing it again.
Here you go. I hope 30 is not too much:
Education Quotes:
1. It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. -Robert Ingersoll
2. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -Andy McIntyre & Derek Bok
3. The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. -Franklin D. Roosevelt
4. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. -Sydney J. Harris
5. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. -Albert Einstein
6. Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. -Aristotle
7. A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. -George Santayana
8. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. -Oscar Wilde
9. He who opens a school door, closes a prison. -Victor Hugo
10. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -Will Durant
11. Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. -Edward Everret
12. The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. -Robert Maynard
Hutchings
13. My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. -Robert Maynard Hutchings
14. Education is the movement from darkness to light. -Allan Bloom
15. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle
16. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. -Robert Frost
17. Education is not filling a pail but lighting a fire. -William Butler Yeats
18. Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. -Abbe Dimnet
19. Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. -Roger Lewin
20. The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. -George Santayana
21. It does not make much difference what you study, as long as you don’t like it. -Finley Peter Dunne
22. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. -John Dewey
23. The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn…and change. -Carl Rogers
24. Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -Malcom S. Forbes
25. The two basic processes of education are knowing and valuing. -Robert Havighurst
26. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. -Isaac Asimov
28. There is no knowledge that is not power. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. -Confucius
30. Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. -Aristotle
Many of these are quite good.
Which ones do you like? Do you have any education quotes that you can share here? Please leave a comment below.
-Shawn
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Love these – especially #15, 16 (both basically saying the same thing) & 30.
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well done,I like this a lot,just been on friends reunited and this reminds me of all the things I mised at school,I’m a late learner so keep this up ,best wishes.
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I like this one the best:
8. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. -Oscar Wilde
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#2 is my all time favorite. Thanks Shawn
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As always, I appreciate the inspiration that leads you to keeping these posts coming! I really love number 10 because the more I learn the more I realize how little I know about anything! Education is a truly profound and humbling experience.
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I like, 2; 15; 20; 26; great quotes, thankyou Shawn.
Here is something I read that I believe to be very true. I thought I would share it with you.
Definition of a Good Education is defined as acquiring skills. There are many different ways to be educated and many subjects that can be studied. A good education is one that teaches a student to think. This is proven by Edith Hamilton, what she believes about learning and its importance to our world. In Edith Hamilton’s essay, “The Ever-present Past”, she described a good education as one that is modelled after the ancient Greek’s ideas. She defines being educated as being able to be caught up into a world of thought. The Greeks were taught to think. They were cultivated on an individual level so that they knew how to conceive ideas on their own. During the times of the ancient Greeks students were shown how to appreciate poetry, music, arts, and mathematics. They carried their education of thought into their ways of life.
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hey 2nd 1 is da best …… btw nyc quotes
…………. love them al <3<3
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Just love them all!!!!!
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Education,learning can be lots of fun!!!When you have valued education,learning,knowledge,wisdom,you become addicted to it for goodness sake.A learned person is a light to everyone.He is constantly glowing but not glaring.
originally by:UNI DOMPOR
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Thanks Shawn! These are all great. My favorites are 4,6,& 28.
I remember one…”In the case of good books,the point is not how
many of them you get through,but how many can get through to
you” -Mortimer Adler
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Thank-you everyone, for chiming in. And thanks to those who shared some quotes & thoughts of your own.
Keep ‘em coming!
-Shawn
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I like the following one.Though we are educated, without commonsense no use.Very nice.
Education Quotes:
1. It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. -Robert Ingersoll
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They will never care how much we know until they know how much we care.
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There are a number of good quotes there, and some made by our country’s early leaders. They saw the importance of a good education and it is even more important in today’s fast pace. It’s a shame that many of our states try to solve their budget problems by cutting back on education funds which is very short sighted.
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take time to think its a source of intelligence.
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rajesh Reply:
October 25th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
i like 19 good quotes, thanks shawn
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