Education Quotes

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand A. Russell

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.

Douglas Yates

Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

John Ruskin

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

Saki

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Leonardo da Vinci

When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, "As much as the living are to the dead.

Diogenes Laertius

Your Education is worth what You are worth.

Anon

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action.

Herbert Spencer

Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.

William B. Yeats

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time.

Sydney J. Harris

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Anon

An educated man is one who can entertain a new idea, entertain another person and entertain himself.

Sydney Wood

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

C.C. Colton

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

Education is too important to be left solely to educators.

Francis Keppel