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| No man who worships education has got the best out of education…. Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete. ~ G.K. Chesterton |
| The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think – rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. ~ Bill Beattie |
| The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~ Sydney J. Harris |
| Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~ Albert Einstein |
| The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| It’ll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~ Author unknown, quoted in |
| An educational system isn’t worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make aliving but doesn’t teach them how to make a life. ~ Author Unknown |
| If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~ Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok |
| It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll |
| Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~ G.M. Trevelyan |
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| To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ~ A.A. Milne |
| Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. ~ Abraham Flexner |
| Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~ Edward Everett |
| Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. ~ Ezra Pound |
| Education should be exercise; it has become massage. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~ Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~ Victor Hugo |
| Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It’s like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won’t fatten the dog. ~ Mark Twain |
| My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. ~ Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~ Will Durant |
| Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? ~ Erich Fromm |
| Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. ~ William Haley |
| I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That’s what I call a liberal education. ~ Tallulah Bankhead |
| A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ~ George Santayana |
| Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~ Malcolm S. Forbes |
| An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong. ~ R. Baker |
| What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. ~ Oscar Wilde |
| What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals. ~ Robert Brault |