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Quotes About Education

Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents.
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
~ Plato
It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.
~ John Hoeven
There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
~ J. William Fulbright
The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.
~ W. Edwards Deming
By education most have been misled.
~ John Dryden
If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.
~ Milton Friedman
Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.
~ Leo Strauss
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Education is a vacine for violence
~ Edward James Olmos
Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character.
~ Unknown
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
~ John Dewey
She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.
~ Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
~ John Maynard Keynes
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.
~ Simone Veil
I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.
~ Ava DuVernay
Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.
~ Plato
The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed, they hurt America and American business, making us less competitive in the global market.
~ Unknown
The world has changed, but education has not changed with it.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."
~ Thomas Carlyle
I'm forming a charitable institution for education.
~ Amar Bose
I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.
~ Shirley Hufstedler
An athletic scholarship shouldn't be the best opportunity to receive a quality education.
~ Jalen Rose
literacy is at the heart of sustainable development
~ Kofi Annan