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Quotes About Education

How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them.
~ Confucius, The Analects
The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
~ Michelle Obama
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
~ Samuel Johnson
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
~ Woody Allen
Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
~ Alexander Pope
The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
~ T. S. Eliot
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
~ T. S. Eliot
Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
~ George Eliot, Adam Bede
To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.
~ Maria Montessori
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
EFFECT OF A TRUE TEACHER GOES UP TO ETERNITY THROUGH HIS STUDENTS.
~ Seema Brain Openers
When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.
~ Michael Badnarik
I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.
~ Unknown
Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
~ Patrice Motsepe
Kim Il Sung University is the central base for training national cadres and the highest institute of Juche-based science and education.
~ Kim Jong-un
The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
~ Avery Brundage
The more you learn, the more you know there is still alot more to learn't
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.
~ Mark Pocan
The Clinton strength was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That's how you win elections.
~ Stephen Bannon