Quotes about Education
Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.
— Mark Twain
Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.
— Matt Chandler
Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
— Theodore Roosevelt
How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them.
— Confucius
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
— George Eliot
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson