Education Quotes

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

We cannot learn men from books.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.

Every educated person is a future enemy.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.