Education Quotes

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

Learn to think continentally.