Education Quotes

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
- Horace Mann.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
- Victor Hugo

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
- Wendell Phillips

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
- Tryon Edwards

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
- Tom Robbins

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot If We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
- Timothy Leary

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
- Isaac D Israeli

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.
- Henry David Thoreau

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
- Horace Mann