More Education Quotations And Sayings

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“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”
– Ernest Dimnet

“The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.”
– Ernest Renan

“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”
– Evan Esar

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

“I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.”
– Felix Bloch

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”
– Francis Bacon

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
– Frank Zappa

“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

“An educated people can be easily governed.”
– Frederick The Great

“In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”
– G. M. Trevelyan

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.”
– Gail Godwin

“If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.”
– Galileo Galilei

“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.”
– George Orwell

“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”
– George Santayana

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”
– George Washington

“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”
– George Washington Carver

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.”
– Harvey S. Firestone

“If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.”
– Heinrich Heine

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
– Helen Keller

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Let’s not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.”
– Hillary Clinton

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