Education Quotes and Sayings

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
- Anatole France

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
- Robert G. Ingersoll

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
- Ezra Pound

Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
- Daniel J. Boorstin

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
- George Washington Carver

The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
- Tom Bodett

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.  Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization.  We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
- Abraham Flexner

Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use?  It’s nice to be number one, but we can fix that.  All we need to do is start the war on education.  If it’s anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we’ll all be hooked on phonics.
- Leighann Lord

Education the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
- John Maynard Keynes

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France

Education should be exercise; it has become massage.
- Martin H. Fischer

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein

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

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.
- Winston Churchill

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

Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
- John Dewey

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think – rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
- Bill Beattie

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
- Roger Lewin

No man who worships education has got the best out of education Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.
- G.K. Chesterton

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
- William R. Inge

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