EDUCATION QUOTES
quotations about education
The test of education, apart from the accomplishments that secure places in an artificial system, should be this: Let the man be thrown naked on an unknown shore, and be forced to win his way amidst a new people. It may then be of little use to play cricket or to mishandle Tschaikowsky on a piano, but good physique, intelligence, and will power make their way infallibly.
ARTHUR LYNCH
Moods of Life
Where education has been entirely neglected, or improperly managed, we see the worst passions ruling with uncontrolled and incessant sway.
SAMUEL PARR
Aphorisms, Opinions, and Reflections of the Late Dr. Parr
We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave those kids alone
PINK FLOYD
"Another Brick in the Wall"
Only the educated are free.
EPICTETUS
Discourses
Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.
NELSON MANDELA
Long Walk to Freedom
Without a gentle contempt for education, no gentleman's education is complete.
G. K. CHESTERTON
The Common Man
Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.
TIMOTHY LEARY
Your Brain Is God
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
New York Times, May 18, 1921
Without an education there is no real democracy.
SERJ TANKIAN
"Uneducated Democracy"
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. WELLS
The Outline of History
A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
PLATO
The Republic
Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of Society is not natural to mankind. It cuts against the grain. A boy would like to follow his father in pursuit of food or prey. He would like to be doing serviceable things so far as his utmost strength allowed. He would like to be earning wages however small to help to keep up the home. He would like to have some leisure of his own to use or misuse as he pleased. He would ask little more than the right to work or starve. And then perhaps in the evenings a real love of learning would come to those who are worthy – and why try to stuff in those who are not? – and knowledge and thought would open the ‘magic casements’ of the mind.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
My Early Life: A Roving Commission
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
My Day
Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
MARK TWAIN
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Education should teach children how to think, but should never tell them what to think. It should sharpen and polish the instruments of thought, but should not fix them into a machine made to cut out one special shape.
ANNIE BESANT
My Path to Atheism
Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
TOM STOPPARD
The Invention of Love
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
PLUTARCH
Plutarch's Lives