Dumb.com >> Quotes >> Education Quotes >>
Education Quotes
This section contains Education Quotes


Education is the transmission of civilization. (Quote by - Will Durant)

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei. (Quote by - Galileo Galilei)

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. (Quote by - Sam Houston)

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. (Quote by - Will Durant)

Education is the fire-proofer of emotions. (Quote by - Frank Crane)

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. -Michael Faraday. (Quote by - Michael Faraday)

The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. (Quote by - Laurence Lee)

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery. (Quote by - Horace Mann)

The world is run by C students. (Quote by - Anon.)

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. (Quote by - Angela Schwindt)

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. (Quote by - Henry Peter Broughan)

How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" (Quote by - Barbara J. Alexander)

If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. (Quote by - Robert F. Goheen)

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. (Quote by - Anthony J. D'angelo)

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find. (Quote by - Anthony J. D'angelo)

If you can read this, thank a teacher. (Quote by - Anonymous Teacher)

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. (Quote by - Robert C. Savage)

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. (Quote by - G. M. Trevelyan)

Pages:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10