Educational Quotes And Sayings

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“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
– Richard Feynmann

“A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don’t know and I don’t care.”
– Richard Pratt

“The mark of a true MBA is that he is often wrong but seldom in doubt.”
– Robert Buzzell

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

“My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.”
– Robert Maynard Hutchins

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”
– Robert Maynard Hutchins

“Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.”
– Ronald Reagan

“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong.”
– Russell Baker

“It does not matter where you go and what you study, what matters most is what you share with yourself and the world.”
– Santosh Kalwar

“Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.” 
– Sir Claus Moser

“Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.”
– Sir Joshua Reynolds

“Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.” 
– Sir William Haley

“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” 
– Socrates

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”
– Sydney J. Harris

“I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice.  That’s what I call a liberal education.”
– Tallulah Bankhead

“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” 
– Thomas Carruthers

“Many of life‘s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
– Thomas Edison

“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

“A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.”
– Tom Stoppard

“Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.”
– Tom Stoppard

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.” 
– Vernon Law

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
– Victor Hugo

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
– Will Durant

“Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.” 
– William Allin

“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. ”
– William Haley

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