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Quotes About Learning

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Education, education, education
~ Tony Blair
Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think.
~ Unknown
You think education is something to be done when all else fails?
~ T. H. White
Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.
~ Richard Mitchell
The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Better untaught than ill-taught.
~ Grenville Kleiser
Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.
~ Lincoln Steffens
Storytelling is the oldest form of education.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.
~ Terry Pratchett
Even my going back to school was to inspire young people that it's never too late to education. That's all I can do, and try to be the best father and husband that I can be.
~ Mark Wahlberg
There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?
~ Ken Robinson
What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.
~ Tony Blair
He was raised by three nurses: freedom, solitude and Mademoiselle. Together, the three of them provided him with an education. From them, he learned everything he believed it was possible to learn.
~ Timothee de Fombelle
Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.
~ Richard Mitchell
Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.
~ Eliza Dushku
Compassion is a college education. It's a doctorate.
~ Krishna Das