Quotes about Education
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate of empires depends on the education of youth
— Aristotle
A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.
— Henry Ford
It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.
— Cormac McCarthy
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
— Mark Twain
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
— William James
Education is the great engine to personal development.
— Nelson Mandela
By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.
— Albert Einstein
Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
— Edmund Burke
The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt