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Quotes About Education

The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.
~ George Washington
Theres my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.
~ Howard Aiken
We are taught words, not ideas.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education
~ Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).
~ Rudolph A. Marcus
I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.
~ Emmanuel Jal
I didn't even complete my University Education
~ Bill Gates
England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.
~ Kevin Ayers
A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.
~ Wendell Berry
Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.
~ Rachel Maddow
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.
~ Barbara M. White
If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.
~ Horace Mann
I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.
~ John Dewey
Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.
~ Hugh MacDiarmid
Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.
~ Angelina Jolie
When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
~ Maya Angelou
One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.
~ John Lydon
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
~ Ernest Dimnet
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
~ John B. S. Haldane
My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.
~ Graham Norton
Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
~ Josh Billings