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Quotes About Learning

The real safeguard of democracy is education.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
~ Plato
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
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
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
Education is... doing anything that changes you.
~ George Leonard
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
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
The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.
~ Paulo Freire
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
~ Alice James
Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.
~ H. G. Wells
Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.
~ L. Frank Baum