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Quotes About Education

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.
~ Dominic Cooper
The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
~ Émile Zola
One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
~ Martin Luther
Interest and attention will insure to you an education.
~ Robert Andrews Millikan
If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.
~ Franz Kafka
The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.
~ Maria Montessori
Having an education is invaluable.
~ Maggie Gyllenhaal
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
~ Walter Lippmann
Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.
~ Marva Collins
Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.
~ Bryan Stevenson
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
~ Abraham Lincoln
He who laughs most, learns best.
~ John Cleese
Venezuelans are tired of 14 years of promises and no results. The only things growing are inflation, murder and crime. The good indicators - production, education and jobs - are all falling.
~ Henrique Capriles Radonski
The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.
~ M. R. DeHaan
The best education for the best is the best education for all.
~ Robert M. Hutchins
The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago.
~ Hermann Minkowski
The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.
~ Jack Kemp
True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
~ Anatole France
The only dumb question is the question you don't ask.
~ Paul MacCready
Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.
~ Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.
~ Russell Kirk
Education does not necessarily make one wise?
~ Benjamin Carson
When I was at school you got an overall general education, on many things, even just basic facts.
~ Jo Brand