Quotes

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
-Andy McIntyre

My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other.
-James Abram Garfield

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

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

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.
-Hosea Ballou

who must be taught to think.
-Anne Sullivan

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
-W B Yeats

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
-Angela Schwindt

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
-Henry Peter Brougham

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

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
-Victor Hugo

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

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
-James Baldwin

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
-Aristotle

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

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

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

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
-James Baldwin

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
-Will Durant

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
-Aristotle

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
-Anthony J Dangelo

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

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

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.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
-Henry Brooks Adams

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
-Anthony J Dangelo